Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi there.
I wrote an expect script to restart nimbus service on multiple solaris 10 boxes, but following code part is not working for me

Code:

send "svcadm restart nimbus && sleep 1\r"
        send "svcs nimbus |awk '/nimbus/ {print \$1}'\r"
        expect {
                "online*"       {sleep 2; send "svcs nimbus |awk '/nimbus/ {print \$1}'\r"; exp_continue}
                "maintenance"   {send "svcadm clear nimbus\rexit\r"}
                "online"        {exit}
                }

The asterisk there is being treated as wildcard, but i need it to be treated as regular symbol. I tried to backslash it, and tried to use single quotes instead of double ones, but both ways brought me no luck. Pls suggest

How regular, just a char with no meta? Multiple backslash? [*]? Expect is tk/tcl, whose rules are still mostly a mystery to me.

I have written many expect scripts by just logging all output directly to a file, and having the input generator script read the output file to decide what input to generate.

Back door solution: be in a dir with no such entry name, perhaps an empty dir you create and change to. Unexpandable * is just *.

Thanks! I tried two backslashes instead of one and it worked

Only two! I have been up to 16 in FrEd, the friendly editor from Waterloo.

BTW, there is a tool called autoexpect that, by following a session, writes too-explicit example expect scripts.