Re: Simple expect question

Freddie wrote:

> >> I'm trying to make a simple script that will do with telnet what  
> >> one can
> >> do with ssh when you do "ssh hostname command". iow:
> >> telnet somehost command
> >>
> >> then it should, using expect (presumably), telnet into somehost,  
> >> prompt
> >> me interactively for the username/password, and after successfully
> >> logging in run the command specified on somehost.
> >
> > The Wikipedia page for Expect uses this task as its first example:
> >
> > 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect
> 
> Thanks, I had already seen that. The problem with the example is it  
> expects the username and password as variables that I'd have to give  
> on the command line which I'd rather not do.

If you're asking about the prompting, my first attempt would be:

	puts -nonewline stderr "Username: "
	flush stderr
	set username [gets stdin]

	puts -nonewline stderr "Password: "
	flush stderr
	exec stty -echo
	set password [gets stdin]
	exec stty echo
	puts stderr ""

This is just normal Tcl, nothing specific to Expect.

-- 
Glynn Clements <[email protected]>
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