hi,

I have written a program in that i am calling a script using system command
In the script i am returning a value.
how to capture script return value in the C program.
System command always returning 0(zero)
Is there any alternate to capture script return value.

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C -Program (test.c)
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#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
int status=-1;

printf("Status = %d\n",status);
status = system("./test.sh");
printf("Status = %d\n",status);

return 0;
}
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Script (test.sh)
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#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn telnet 192.168.2.115
expect {
"login: " {send "nagesh\r"}
timeout {puts "\nLogin Failed" ; exit}
}
return -1
exit

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Cheers
Nagesh

Are you certain that your script is even returning a non-zero exit status? I don't know much about expect, but it doesn't look to me like the exit commands in it are configured to send anything but zero.

In expect terminal return command returning the value and the same thing displaying on the terminal.

[nagesh@zepplin ~]$ expect
expect1.1> return -1
-1
expect1.2> return 0
0
expect1.3> return 123
123

The same thing when i am trying from script,script is exiting at return command but the return value is not displaying on terminal.

expect1.4> echo 123
123
expect1.5> echo "hi linux"
hi linux

Even echo command working on expect terminal but not working from script.
How to use these(echo,return)commands from the script.

How to return a value from a script and how to capture a script return value from C program.

Hello laginagesh

The key issue is the expect script exit status. Easier to investigate that at the command line than in C. When it is working OK then call it from the C program.

Test your expect script like thisBash sets $? to the exit status of the last command.

You will get more help if you attract expect experts by putting expect in the title of your post, maybe "How can I set expect script exit status?". You could start a new thread.

BTW1 please use CODE tags around your code (that's CODE and /CODE in [] brackets -- or you can go into Advanced posting mode and use the # icon).

BTW2 it is safer to give the full path to ./test.sh in your C, rather than assume the compiled C program is being run in the directory containing test.sh.

BTW3 the file name extension .sh is conventionally used to indicate a shell script. Maybe clearer to call the expect script test.expect?

Best

Charles

As I said, I know next-to-nothing about expect, but I took a look at the man page, and it clearly says that "exit" returns zero unless you specify a different number for it. So I'm thinking you need to specify "exit 1" if the login action times out, or something like that.

It's not clear to me at all what "return" is supposed to do, as there's no clear section describing it as a command word, or whether it should take any arguments. Is it supposed to output something to stdout? It doesn't look to me like it's directly related to the script's exit status.