On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Keith Lelacheur wrote:
> Finally got the thing working in a roundabout way. Maybe not the cleanest
> way to do it, but it works and folks are happy. I did not know where to
> begin with the "expect" scripting, but thanks to google I stumbled across
> "autoexpect" which seems to work like a macro recorder of sorts.
Eh, what you posted below looks pretty optimized.
> I used "autoexpect" and then sftp'd into the remote server entering the
> password manually. Once I was in the script that sftp called with the -b
> option was executed and I exited the ftp session. I exited the
> "autoexpect" shell and there was the script.exp file generated by
> autoexpect. I modified the script.exp for my purposes and then was able to
> call it from my main processing scripts, lo and behold the file was moved
> without manual intervention. For those at last nights Tampa meeting and
> anyone else interested, here is what the meat of the expect script ended
> up looking like:
>
> ..........
> set timeout -1
> spawn $env(SHELL)
> match_max 100000
> send -- "sftp -b sftppush username@69.*.*.*\r"
> expect "username@69.*.*.*'s password: "
You can change that to
expect "password: "
or
expect "'s password: "
so when/if the address of the destination machine changes, that part doesn't
break also.
> send -- "password\r"
> send -- "exit\r"
> expect eof
> ...........
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