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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash expect problem Post 302980461 by Aeris on Sunday 28th of August 2016 12:08:47 PM
Old 08-28-2016
Bash expect problem

Hey there Smilie

I have a Bash Script and I'm trying to update Roundcube, but theres a user interactive line like:
Code:
bin/installto.sh /var/www/mail/rc

Upgrading from 1.1.3. Do you want to continue? (y/N)

I'm trying to avoid this user interaction like this:

Code:
cd roundcubemail-1.2.1 >/dev/null 2>&1
expect -c 'bin/installto.sh /var/www/mail/rc >/dev/null 2>&1'
expect "Do you want to continue? (y/N)"
send "y"
interact
rm -r /root/roundcubemail-1.2.1/ >/dev/null 2>&1
[even more code]

But the result is smth like this:
Code:
invalid command name "bin/installto.sh"
    while executing
"bin/installto.sh /var/www/mail/rc >/dev/null 2>&1"
couldn't read file "Do you want to continue? (y/N)": no such file or directory
update.sh: line 104: send: command not found
update.sh: line 105: interact: command not found

Is there any way that the update can run without user interaction and returning to other commands (like rm -r /root/roundcubemail-1.2.1/)

best regards

Last edited by vbe; 08-28-2016 at 01:22 PM.. Reason: more code tags
 

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bashbug [--help] [--version] [bug-report-email-addresses] DESCRIPTION
bashbug is a utility for reporting bugs in Bash to the maintainers. bashbug will start up your preferred editor with a preformatted bug report template for you to fill in. Save the file and quit the editor once you have completed the missing fields. bashbug will notify you of any problems with the report and ask for confirmation before sending it. By default the bug report is mailed to both the GNU developers and the Debian Bash maintainers. The recipients can be changed by giving a comma separated list of bug-report-email-addresses. If you invoke bashbug by accident, just quit your editor. You will always be asked for confirmation before a bug report is sent. OPTIONS
--help Show a brief usage message and exit. --version Show the version of bashbug and exit. bug-report-email-addresses Comma separated list of recipients' email addresses. By default the report is mailed to both the GNU developers and the Debian Bash maintainers. ENVIRONMENT
DEFEDITOR Editor to use for editing the bug report. EDITOR Editor to use for editing the bug report (overridden by DEFEDITOR). SEE ALSO
bash(1), reportbug(1), update-alternatives(8) for preferred editor. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Christer Andersson <klamm@comhem.se> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). GNU Bash 3.1 11 December 2007 BASHBUG(1)
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