Re: Expect Scripting

From: Richard Stearn (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Date: Fri Jun 08 2001 - 01:20:23 EEST

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    Greetings Albert

    > The actual password begins and ends with $ and expect is trying to read that

    You probably need to escape the $'s. For example:

            send "\$xxxxxx\$\r"

    Rather than attempt to control ftp from an expect script I use the following method:

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    LOG_FILE="<log file name>"
    FTP_HOST="<ftp host name>"
    USER="user <username> <password>\n"
    SWITCHES="bin\n hash\n prompt\n"
    REMOTE="cd <remote dir>\n"
    LOCAL="lcd <local dir>\n"
    CMD="get <file>\n"
    CLOSE="bye\n"

    echo "$USER $SWITCHES $REMOTE $LOCAL $CMD $CLOSE" | ftp -n -i -v $FTP_HOST > $LOG_FILE 2>&1
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------

    And then scan the logfile for the results.

    This method I find to be more reliable than using expect to control ftp. 

    -- 
Regards
	Richard
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