ok, I have been using autoexpect to generate expect scripts. What I am trying to do is login into a remote machine using ssh and execute another script and then logout. My first question is...

Is expect the best thing to use for this?

The script that autoexpect generates logs into the machine fine. But, the script that I want to execute does not execute. I think that the problem is, is that the computer that I am trying to login to displays the last time that I loged in, and the date that I loged in. So the expect script is not recieving what it is expecting, because the last login time is always changing. Is there a way to ignore this and just wait a few seconds before doing anything else?

Thanks in advance for the response. If anything is unclear, I can try to clear it up for you.

How about:

ssh user@remotemachine "cmd arg1 arg2"

alright, thanks. I don't know how I didn't try that, but it works Now I just have to figure out how to give arguments to an expect script, so it can do different things depending on what I send it.

well I found that arguments are passed using $argv. But I can't seem to get this line to work correctly...

spawn ssh user@server {~/stuff/script $argv}

it is recognizing $argv as "$argv" and not as the argument that is being passed in Is there anyway around this?