sending telnet commands non-interactively

JustinHoMi · 09-20-2001, 06:23 PM

Howdy. I was wondering if there's a way to send a telnet command, and just get the results back to stdout, so that I can use it in a pipe.

Something like:

telnet x.x.x.x -mycommand | grep somethingelse

Or even just sending the results to a text file would work...

Did I explain myself OK?

Any help would be awesome.

Thanks,
Justin

siddiqu · 09-21-2001, 09:17 AM

U can use like this

telnet localhost | (

echo "username"

sleep 3

echo "password"

sleep 2

echo "ping localhost "

sleep 3

echo "exit"
)

write what ever the command u want
siddiqu.T

JustinHoMi · 09-21-2001, 01:00 PM

nice!!

Thanks a lot!

Justin

kris.kj.jacobs · 09-29-2001, 08:05 AM

You know Perl ?

You should take a look at the Net::Telnet module. You can setup telnet connection from within a program (= non-interactive). You can send out commands and read the result back.

JustinHoMi · 09-29-2001, 02:20 PM

No, I don't know perl at all, but I did come across that module a little while back, and installed it. From the readme, and looking at some other scripts that use the telnet module, I managed to write a pretty smooth script that did exactly what I want! =D