Re: [webmin-l] Custom commands .. responding to interactive dialogue

Just to complete this thread I tried using "expect" and "expect-lite" in
bash scripts but settled for pexpect.

http://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

The pexpect python script is made executable and runs as custom command.

regex is used in python script to find patterns in the questions
returned to terminal.

./test.py

One problem I had was finding the correct Tcl syntax to emulate
arrowdown and arrowup pressing
but I used this ... child.sendline('\E\[B')

child.send('\r') ... emulates pressing ENTER.

On 04/07/16 11:02, dl wrote:
>
>
> On 04/07/16 10:46, Jamie Cameron wrote:
>> There's no built-in support for handling interactive dialogs like this in Webmin.
>> Maybe if some other tool can fake it (ie. expect) you could call that from your
>> custom command though.
>
> Thanks.
>
> I did find this article which refers to expect .. which I will try.
>
> https://www.linux.com/news/command-line-automation-expect-lite
>
> I might also try running a python proxy script.
>
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