Hi. Can anyone tell me how to access the output from a remote telnet command on the local machine?
I want to run a script on local machine which telnets to a belkin router, executes a command and return the output of that command to the script/local machine for further action. I can do it all except return the text for further processing. Any ideas? So far I have, with sundry sleeps to allow router to catch up:

(
echo open 192.168.1.1
echo "admin"
echo "ip ping <ipaddress>"
echo "user logout"
) | telnet

I need to know if the ping has been successful and then proceed if not.
TIA
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Richard

There are plenty of threads out there about using expect to pull down output. Do a quick search using your keywords "telnet router expect" and see what turns up.

Thanks, but should have mentioned that the querying box is running ttylinux for which neither tcl nor expect are available (I expect!)
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Richard