Hey folks,

I'm somewhat familir with Expect, however I've come to a point where I need to write a script to log into a remote machine, execute a command (that being a shell script on the remote machine) and assign the output of that command to a variable and possibly an array if more than one.

My script intends to log into the machine and run a script to determine whether the "informix" userid exists. The shell script on the remote box (isinformixhere.sh) works perfectly.

Here's the segment of my Expect script which I'm having problems with:

set informix [exec $scriptdir/isinformixhere.sh]

The problem is, of course, the exec command runs the command on the LOCAL machine. and not the remote machine. Is there a way to execute a remote command in this fashion.

Any help or suggestions would ge GREATLY appreciated! Thanks!

Welcome to LQ.

If you use ssh you can use password less logins and you wouldn't even need to use expect. eg:
ssh somuer@somehost isinformixhere.sh

You could run this from a bash or perl script then capture the output to a variable.

In expect, how to capture the output into variable..lets say, when we do ls -1rt, how to capture the output into array, so that i can access individually.

Thanks