expect script

nilleso · 09-12-2009, 08:16 AM

in ksh/bash I often use a for loop as in the following example:

Code:

for name in bob jim jacobo henric;do
print hello $name
done

How can I do the same for loop in an expect script?

TIA!!
cheers

colucix · 09-12-2009, 09:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nilleso

How can I do the same for loop in an expect script?

It depends on what do you want to achieve. You can either write a shell script which executes an expect script inside the for loop, passing the name as argument OR write an expect script which uses control flow statements whose syntax is the same as Tcl.

jlinkels · 09-13-2009, 07:09 AM

Code:

foreach name {bob jim jacobo henric} {
   puts "hello $name"
}

jlinkels

nilleso · 09-16-2009, 08:51 PM

thanks folks jlinkels solution worked for me. I often embed expect inside of shell scripts but I couldn't get the for loop to work as expected.

cheers