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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Suppressing output of a spawned telnet process Post 302433215 by arun_maffy on Tuesday 29th of June 2010 03:08:31 AM
Old 06-29-2010
In the below sample code I wanted the action "date" not shown to the user.
Code:
#! /usr/local/bin/expect --

set timeout 120
log_user 0

spawn telnet <hostname>

expect "login: $"
send " username\r"
expect "Password: $"
send "password\r"

expect "<prompt> $"
send "date\r"

expect "<prompt> $"
send "exit\r"

interact

 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

purple-send-async

purple-send-async(1)						   User Commands					      purple-send-async(1)

NAME

       purple-send-async - calls purple API functions using DBus.

SYNOPSIS

       purple-send-async method-name [type1:value1] [type2:value2] ...

DESCRIPTION

       This program calls purple API functions using DBus. As opposed to purple-send, it does not print the return value. If you wnat to print the
       return value, use purple-send. This shell script just invokes dbus-send, see man dbus-send for how to specify the parameters.

OPTIONS

       Use dbus-viewer to get the list of supported functions and their parameters.

       Here are some examples:

       /usr/bin/purple-send-async PurpleAccountsFindConnected string: string:prpl-jabber

       /usr/bin/purple-send-async PurpleAccountsGetAll

       /usr/bin/purple-send-async PurpleCoreQuit

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-im-client	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       purple-remote(1), purple-send(1), purple-url-handler(1), attributes(5)

       purple-send-async Manual, http://pidgin.im/

NOTES

       Updated by Lei Ju, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006, 2007.

SunOS 5.11							    02 Apr 2008 					      purple-send-async(1)
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