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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Calling Shell Script from Expect... Post 302540115 by cyberparanoid on Tuesday 19th of July 2011 03:53:23 PM
Old 07-19-2011
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Hi there,

I need some help regarding the execution of shell script from expect as the method I am trying is giving me error. I wrote an shell program which takes two arguments to telnet to a device and saves the output in a file. Following is the script.
===================================================

Code:
     #!/usr/bin/bash
     # Directory where the log files will be stored
     #
     DIR=/tmp/Vlan

     ########################################

     if [ ! -e $DIR ]
     then
       mkdir $DIR
     fi

     # Collect data from the router
     (echo "cic";\
     echo "cic123!";\
     echo "term len 0";\
     echo "show vlan  | e VLAN|enet|token|fddi|default|Vlan|vlan|-        0      0 |----|Type";\
     echo "q";\
     sleep 3)|telnet $1 > $DIR/$1.txt
	 awk '/active/ {print $1," ",$2}' $DIR/$1.txt > $DIR/$2.txt


=================================================


Now when I try to call it from expect script then the following error occurs. Please guide me how to resolve this issue.


Code:
spawn /tmp/infovlan.sh 192.168.111.28 PEAGG
/tmp/infovlan.sh: test: argument expected


If I try to execute it using the below method then the same error is produced.


Code:
exec /tmp/infovlan.sh 192.168.111.28 PEAGG
/tmp/infovlan.sh: test: argument expected


however the script runs fine if I run from cli directly.

Regards,
Last edited by pludi; 07-19-2011 at 06:58 PM..
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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