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Very Basic expect script - What am I missing?

Hi -

I'm sure there is a simple answer to this question - I have a very basic expect script:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/expect -f

spawn pwd

expect -exact "~]#"    # My Prompt

spawn ls

expect -exact "~]#"

spawn rm -f *.ver

expect -exact "~]#"

At the command prompt in the same directory I run:
touch blah.ver (to create a test file)
check with an ls, and clearly the file is there.

If i run the above script, the pwd command runs fine, as does the ls run fine. In fact I see blah.ver in the output of the ls -
yet, the rm command does not delete the file....

if I remove the -f from the script, the rm command reports:
rm: cannot remove '*.ver' No such file or directory

However, if after the script is complete at the prompt I type
rm -f *.ver

It works as expected, and deletes the file -

What am I missing here?
Thanks -
Mike

Hi,

as it appears, the spawn command cannot interpret '*' as glob. Not sure if it can be made to work without providing the full name.

[EDIT]
Ok,

Code:

here is one possibility:

#!/usr/bin/expect -f

spawn pwd

expect -exact "~]#"    # My Prompt

spawn ls

expect -exact "~]#"

spawn find ./ -maxdepth 1 -name *.ver -exec rm -f \{} \;

expect -exact "~]#"

Note, that spawn cannot interpret globs and neither can the spawned command rm do. 'find', however, can interpret them. Notice that you do not have to escape or quote *.ver in 'find'. But you will have to escape the curly braces. Do NOT quote them! ESCAPE them!

Hope this helps.