Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
I am trying to write a script which would get some data from an interface.
However the problem is that I have to enter username and passwd as i enter the interface.

I tried
(user;passwd;command)|telnet xxxx
however I can't enter the passwd like this.

How can I enter the interface?

Thanx,

Try a here document:

Code:

telnet 1.2.3.4 <<EOF
   username
   passwd
   command
   exit
EOF

The EOF (can be anything the shel disregards completely), delimits the commands you would type into the terminal. Note: the last EOF must be in the leftmost column, column #1. Always.

The here document doesn't work for me:

Try a sleep command before every command and then echo the actual command. Remember that we want the command to execute on the remote computer.

Code:

(sleep 4;echo "username";sleep 2;echo "password";echo "pwd";sleep 2;echo "exit")|telnet 1.2.3.4

My simple example is to execute the unix "pwd" command on the remote computer. The "sleep" values may need adjustment according to what you are running.


Unless the remote end has very limited commands there will no doubt be a better method using Remote Shell or whatever.