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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with Expect Utility Post 303039421 by nikhil jain on Friday 4th of October 2019 06:47:46 AM
Old 10-04-2019
Help with Expect Utility
Hi aLL,

I have a requirement where in i need to read the file from while loop as shown in the code below

Code:
while read line
do
command $line
done < list.txt

But after every command it asks if i want to really go ahead with the execution since there are several other lines in the list.txt i cannot answer manually, can i automate the same using Unix's Expect Utility, i tried using the command but no luck.

Code:
#!/usr/bin/expect
#use correct prompt

while read line
do
eval spawn command $line
set prompt ":|#|\\\$"
interact -o -nobuffer -re $prompt return
send "y\r"
done < list.txt

 

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