03-30-2013
Trouble passing commands with expect
Hello All,
I hope someone could help me with this.
I'm creating a shell script to run a process. The trouble is, part of the process has to be ran as a different user. I can 'su' to the user ok, but I'm having trouble passing a 'cd' command as well as some variables I set earlier in the script.
Here's what I have:
Quote:
file=`ls -ltr | tail -1`
expect << eof
spawn su - user2
expect "Password:"
send "password\r"
send "cd /working/dir1/\r"
send "cp $file /working/dir2\r"
send "exit\r"
expect eof
When I execute I get this error:
$ $ cp: SOMETHING.log: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
$ invalid command name "cp"
while executing
Seems the 'cd' works, but it places a '$' in the beginning of the line, which is throwing off the rest of the script. My questions are, how can I 'cd' properly using expect and is it possible to pass a variable this way?
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