Telnet Scripting

[BryanY]

What's the best way to go about writing a script that executes commands after it telnets to a device?

Can i do this with a regular shell script? or would I have to write an Expect script?

 

[PHV]

IMHO the Expect script is the best approach.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[phoenixdna]

I'd never heard of Expect before this post. Learn something new everyday. I looked this up and it looks like an interesting tool.

I've been working on a perl script to do this but it doesn't work right. Sometimes I get it to work and sometimes not. So I'm going to check out Expect.

 

[Chacalinc]

sorry for the stupid question, but what is "Expect"?

 

[Chacalinc]

nevermind, I found the answer.

Cheers.