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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Expect for Windows Post 302165733 by dave_m on Friday 8th of February 2008 03:42:33 PM

02-08-2008

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still having problems with setting variables

I've been stuck on this one for awhile.. I am ussing ActiveState tcl 8.4.16.0, I am executing an expect script from windows that telnets to
an HPUX box, this part works well, then I try to grep Info from a file
and set a variable with the info. Simple in UX, not so simple from a PC..
I can tell from the history file on the HPUX box that the grep
portion is working, but it is not setting the variable, here is the line of code.

set X [send "grep test /tmp/testfile\r\n"]

I'm expecting X to be set with the grep'd value of test from the /tmp/testfile. I'm seeing the grep function work, but the variable is not getting set? Is the variable not being exported to the HPUX machine?
Any help will be gretly appreciated.

Dave
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zgrep

ZGREP(1)                                                      General Commands Manual                                                     ZGREP(1)

NAME

       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Zgrep  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep  options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  then  the
       standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.

       If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.

EXIT CODE

       2 - An option that is not supported was specified.

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

                                                                                                                                          ZGREP(1)