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Expect is an open source programming language created in 1990.

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Expect, an extension to the Tcl scripting language written by Don Libes, is a program to automate interactions with programs that expose a text terminal interface. Expect was originally written in 1990 for Unix systems, but has since become available for Microsoft Windows and other systems.. Read more on Wikipedia...


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# Assume $remote_server, $my_user_id, $my_password, and $my_command were read in earlier # in the script. # Open a telnet session to a remote server, and wait for a username prompt. spawn telnet $remote_server expect "username:" # Send the username, and then wait for a password prompt. send "$my_user_id\r" expect "password:" # Send the password, and then wait for a shell prompt. send "$my_password\r" expect "%" # Send the prebuilt command, and then wait for another shell prompt. send "$my_command\r" expect "%" # Capture the results of the command into a variable. This can be displayed, or written to disk. set results $expect_out(buffer) # Exit the telnet session, and wait for a special end-of-file character. send "exit\r" expect eof
Example from Wikipedia:
#timeout is a predefined variable in expect which by default is set to 10 sec #spawn_id is another default variable in expect. #It is good practice to close spawn_id handle created by spawn command set timeout 60 spawn ssh $user@machine while {1} { expect { eof {break} "The authenticity of host" {send "yes\r"} "password:" {send "$password\r"} "*\]" {send "exit\r"} } } wait close $spawn_id

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