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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting expect in bash script Post 302588567 by js741 on Monday 9th of January 2012 10:45:50 AM
Old 01-09-2012
expect in bash script
Hi, I'm writing a shell script that calls a few commands that prompt the user for two simple yes/no questions. if the answers are consistent (the first is a yes, the second is a no), what would my expect script look like? Google is only giving me answers for scripts where I telnet or ssh. right now I have:

Code:
#!user/bin/expect

package require Expect
spawn bash

expect "...."
send "yes\r"
expect "...."
send "yes\r"

exit 0

also, do I save the file as .tcl?

Thank you!
 

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NAME

     atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs

SYNOPSIS

     atf-sh script

DESCRIPTION

     atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library.

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ENVIRONMENT

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