Thanks for all the time your putting into this colucix!

Hmm but the thing is if i change the awk cmd to end before where it usually ends like this :

exec cat /conf/$USER/$port/.tmpconfig | awk "/!/,/interface/" > /conf/$USER/$port/$namn.txt

Now it should if its working ok end at the first occurence of interface wich is above where it usually finishes.

I still get the excact same output with this line as with my ordinary one.
This is whats telling me that its the awk format thats faulty.
The .tmpconfig isnt removed at all, i can look at it after the script is done with all the output from the session in it.

This is very strange! Have you checked that the output you're looking at has been modified after the execution of the modified command (with interface instead of end)? Sorry for the silly question, but I'm trying to figure out what really happen!
By the way, here is an alternative (and more pedantic) awk command (just to have a proof of the correct awk processing)

Yea i checked that and its all ok.

Still the same with the new awk line, getting really frustrated here!

Maybe i could call an external bashscript from the expect script wich excecutes the awk cmd? How would that look?
Probably a little hacky but as long as it works.

When i run the script, and do the "show running-config" on the router it kinda pauses excactly where the break is, thats gotta be the problem
but since i get the whole output in .tmpconfig and the awkline is last in the script im thinking it should work anyway!