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Automating Tasks with EXPECT

Issue 54

From Issue #54
October 1998

Oct 01, 1998  By Vinnie Saladino
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Mr. Saladino gives a quick introduction to EXPECT, a program to help you accomplish your remote tasks.
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interact hangs out when I cat a large file

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 12:35.

Hi,

I would like to know whether there is any fix for to prevent interact command from hanging out when I cat a large inside a expect spawned process. Send in your reply to gururaj.srinivasarao@gmail.com

I found an amazing tutorial

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 15:15.

you can check out this amazing tutorial its the best
http://exploring-expect-tcl.blog.com/2009/06/03/exploring-expect/

Very Good knowledge shaired

Shailesh's picture
Submitted by Shailesh (not verified) on Wed, 04/22/2009 - 06:01.

Thanks.
This is very good for system admins.

How to write regular expression for welcome message?

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 23:40.

After login welcome message shows date and time .. How do we write RE for it ? Any idea.

TIA

Thanks !!! It helped me alot

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 09:49.

Thanks !!! It helped me alot !!!!!

Expect buffer

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 02/21/2007 - 07:26.

Hello,

I want to know the size of expect_out(buffer).I want large amount of data to be moved to file using expect buffer but match_max did not help.

Can you please suggest me solution?

Thanks,
pankaj

Telnet session on a telnet session through EXPECT

Sapnesh's picture
Submitted by Sapnesh (not verified) on Thu, 03/29/2007 - 09:46.

Hi All,

I want to telnet to server A followed by another telnet to Server B from Server A.

I could create the expect scripts to telnet to a single server. But then if i send command 'send "telnet server B\r"`to Server A, it doesnot respond properly.

Please Help. do i need to spawn the second telnet process? If yes, then how would i pass the spawn id information back to local machine.

ThanksInAdvance,
Sapnesh

Your guide is very helpfull

rozi's picture
Submitted by rozi (not verified) on Tue, 11/07/2006 - 23:10.

Hi,
I'm seeking the guide that can help me solveing the auto task rather than crond. Now i found it. Great help!

Great solution

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Submitted by Chuck D Smith (not verified) on Wed, 05/31/2006 - 17:39.

This article gave us a great hint to creating a solution to rebooting a Perle Specialix Jetstream terminal server for a failover test. The 'autoexpect' utility gave us the solution we needed in 5 minutes after we found the article. Great stuff! And the article is 8 years old at that!
Please renew my subscription... Oh yeah I just did renew it...

Great help! Thanks!

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 05/14/2005 - 10:56.

Great help! Thanks!

Re: System Administration: Automating Tasks with EXPECT

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 06/10/2003 - 02:00.

It was a great info I was earlier looking for!
Long live :-)
Kumar

Re: System Administration: Automating Tasks with EXPECT

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 03/16/2002 - 03:00.

How to automate telnet through this autoexpect.....can someone help me out....

thanks in advance

S.Sriram

Automating Telnet with expect

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Submitted by Yash (not verified) on Thu, 02/03/2005 - 09:05.

Hi Sriram,

This is too easy.

Just type

$ autoexpect -f telnet.exp telnet

and then enter your username and password
execute any command if u want on remote machine. Then finally exit.

After this telnet.exp file will be created.
Open telnet.exp file and delete the lines containing time stamp for your login. Save the changes. And run ./telnet.exp.

Hope this helps :)
Yash

Re: System Administration: Automating Tasks with EXPECT

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 03/28/2003 - 03:00.

this acticle is too sample to help someone understand the Expect

Re: System Administration: Automating Tasks with EXPECT

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 09/19/2002 - 02:00.

you just have to do :

autoexpect telnet X.X.X.X

then do like you were doing a standart telnet, enter all the command you need.

then, quit the telnet and a script will be generated in your folder.

juste lunch the script to see what you do before.

I hope it will help you.

Phil.

I was just wondering if

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 05/16/2007 - 14:55.

I was just wondering if anyone knew how to make the ip address you are telnet into a variable. I am using a script that was created by the autoexpect feature, but i want to be able to choose the ip address i am going to telnet. thanks for your help.

Telnet - variable IP

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Submitted by George Shelton (not verified) on Tue, 05/22/2007 - 14:43.

Here you go, Host name or IP will work.

# Get the Host name that you are going to work on

send_user "Input Host name here: "

expect_user -re "(.*)\n" {set HostName $expect_out(1,string) }

send_user "\n"
spawn telnet $HostName

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