04-19-2013
Apologies for misunderstanding. I thought you were using expect to extract information for BASH, not vice versa.
Unless it's doing something picky and interactive like automatic telnet logins, I'm not sure what you're using expect for; it's meant to automate interactive things, to the point it comes with autoexpect -- a tool that generates expect programs, just from watching what you type when you run something. For general scripting, expect's it's not so great.
Please post your code, certainly.
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niserror(1) User Commands niserror(1)
NAME
niserror - display NIS+ error messages
SYNOPSIS
niserror error-num
DESCRIPTION
niserror prints the NIS+ error associated with status value error-num on the standard output. It is used by shell scripts to translate
NIS+ error numbers that are returned into text messages.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Using niserror
The following example prints the error associated with the error number 20:
example% niserror 20
Not Found, no such name
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWnisu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
nis+(1), nis_error(3NSL), attributes(5)
NOTES
NIS+ might not be supported in future releases of the SolarisTM Operating Environment. Tools to aid the migration from NIS+ to LDAP are
available in the Solaris 9 operating environment. For more information, visit http://www.sun.com/directory/nisplus/transition.html.
SunOS 5.10 10 Dec 2001 niserror(1)