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Old 09-24-2005, 03:16 AM   #1
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Expect how to?


Hello,

I have an ISP dialer script in which I have to manually enter the username and password. I want to automate this script to automatically accept the username and password. I tried to Google for some tutorial on the Expect command. I found the following link a little useful...

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/fa...section-9.html

However, the script they have given uses the command 'spawn' which is not accepted on my system as a valid command.

If anyone has used Expect before, please help me out. I am on Ubuntu Hoary and have installed Expect using 'apt-get install expect' . Thanks in advance!
 
Old 09-24-2005, 05:28 AM   #2
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well spawn isn't a system command, it's a command for internal use with expect. the contents of the script file is run by expect, not by the shell, hence the common use of the shebang at the start: #!/bin/expect to make it run like a totally normal executable.
 
Old 09-24-2005, 05:49 AM   #3
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Thanks for replying. Ifinally got my script ready. In case anyone is interested, contact me personally, esp people from India who use the Sify ISP.
 
  


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