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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using Expect and if Post 302279383 by cogitate228 on Thursday 22nd of January 2009 03:13:48 PM
Old 01-22-2009
Thanks for the quick reply but am not sure if that's what I'm looking for... basically the root environments on the different machines will have different prompts... i need the expect script to recognize the different prompts and execute specific commands for that specific prompt. This is what I have but I don't know how to write it as an if statement.

if the prompt = x then run this command, else run this

Here is the code i have so far and can't find anything on this anywhere:

spawn ssh [lindex $argv 0]
send "su -\r"
expect "Password:"
send "password\r"
expect "#"
send "su - root\r"
send "\r"


expect "hostname1-root#"
send "command\r"
send "command\r"
send "exit/r"
send "exit/r"
exit

expect "hostname2-root#"
send "command\r"
send "totally different command\r"
send "exit/r"
send "exit/r"
send "exit/r"
exit
expect eof
 

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