From: Riley Williams (odqa.bvzzj@tdinfo.com)
Date: Sun Jun 10 2001 - 22:42:20 EEST
Hi Albert.
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Albert Duane Lawson wrote:
> I am setting up an ftp script using expect. I've ran into a
> problem sending the password.
>
> Here's the part of the script that expect is having trouble with.....
>
> spawn ftp -nv XX.XX.XX.XX
> expect ftp>
> send "user wb7awl\r"
> expect Password:
> send "$xxxxxx$\r"
> expect ftp>
>
> The actual password begins and ends with $ and expect is trying
> to read that as a variable. Is there a way to make expect not
> read that as varibale and send the actual string....???
I'm not 100% about expect, but most shells allow one to say...
send "\$password\$\r"
...and literalise the character following the \ if it's not an
alphabetic character. You could try that...
Best wishes from Riley.
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