Using telnet in batch mode ?

[nwardez]

Hi,

I need to backup several CISCO switches configuration using telnet from my Unix box. As I don't want to type the same commands for each switch, does anyone know a way to do it with a file containing commands. I've tried something like:

telnet -l user_name IP_address <<EOF
passwd
cmd
EOF

but it doesn't work. Any idea ?

Thanks in advance

 

[marsd]

You could use expect.
If you want an actual example of this type of thing
see the expect site and libcisco at source forge.

http://expect.nist.gov/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/libcisco