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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Automated scp using shell & expect Post 302984566 by rbatte1 on Thursday 27th of October 2016 10:21:54 AM
Old 10-27-2016
First of all, and without reading the rather wide code/output, I would respectfully suggest that you should not try to force your way through scp with expect. Tools built like scp, ssh, sftp etc. have security designed in to them and you are trying to break/bypass them in an insecure manner.

You would be far better generating keys to automate the process. It will also make your code far more sensible. Is there a reason not to use the tools they way they are designed? If your script is interactive, why not get the tools to do the work for you?



Robin
 

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