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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to use 'expect' to pass UID & Password to a "for loop" in shell script? Post 302873605 by in2nix4life on Tuesday 12th of November 2013 12:57:13 PM
Old 11-12-2013
Did you try the while loop that I listed in my last post? I mentioned that reading files inside of Expect is a bit flaky. If you create a while loop to read the file containing your hostnames and then send them as an argument to the Expect script, it will store it in the h variable.

That's what this line does:

Code:
set h [lindex $argv 0]

So to put it all together, let's say the Expect script is named sendCmd:

Code:
while read hosts;do sendCmd $hosts;done < my_server_list

or 

while read hosts
do
    sendCmd $hosts
done < my_server_list

Hope that helps.
 

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