the following code works sometimes. other times, it behaves mysteriously. when the script sshs to a box, it is suppose to automatically begin running the command it is told to run. but in this case, after this script logs into a host, it just sits there at the prompt and does not run the command.
i've changed the timeout to "set timeout -1" but that didn't help. any ideas?
Hello all,
It's been a few years since I touched 'expect' and just got it on my system.
In the past, I could simply do the following:
(this is just a simple example)
$ expect
$ ls -l
$ pwd
$ exit
...then a default script name would be placed in my working directory. At this point I... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I wrote this shell script to validate filed numbers for input file. But it take forever to complete validation on a file. The average speed is like 9mins/MB.
Can anyone tell me how to improve the performance of a shell script?
Thanks (12 Replies)
Hello to all...this is my first post (so please go easy). :)
I feel pretty solid at expect scripting, but I'm running into an issue that I'm not able to wrap my head around. I wrote a script that is a little advanced for logging into a remote Linux machine and changing text in a file using sed.... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have here a script which is used to purge older files/directories based on defined purge period. The script consists of 45 find commands, where each command will need to traverse through more than a million directories. Therefore a single find command executes around 22-25 mins... (7 Replies)
Dear everyone...
thanks to this forum I am able to do everyday more and more complex scripts...but now I come up with problem with optimisation..
problem 1 - optimise:
here is my code:
while read number
do
nawk -F "|" -v... (8 Replies)
This Expect script provides expect with a list of IP addresses to Cisco IPS sensors and commands to configure Cisco IPS sensors. The user, password, IP addresses, prompt regex, etc. have been anonymized. In general this script will log into the sensors and send commands successfully but there are... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I need a script to kill the process if it running for long time.
Inputs for the scripts:
1.test.sh (will be running fron cron scheduler)
2.1 hr (ie threshold_time - if the test.sh is running for more than 1 hr test.sh has to kill)
Thanks,
Divya (1 Reply)
I have a simple Expect script to power a system on and off in an endless loop looking for an ERROR message at which point the script should exit. But I need to skip the first 60 seconds after each power on or off and not exit if there are ERROR messages during that time. I thought I could use... (0 Replies)
I am running a script which will read the data from fail line by line and call the Java program by providing the arguments from the each line.
The Java code is working fast for few records and for some records its getting hanged not providing response for morethan one hour.
Currently am... (4 Replies)
I was wondering if I could get some feedback on my script to grab time from our MDM... I blocked out all of the important stuff. I really appreciate any guidance, since I am long out of practice.
#!/bin/bash
serial=$1
# get last seen value of ipad
lastseen=$(curl -s -X "GET"... (11 Replies)