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Old 11-16-2012
Expect not functioning
Hello,

I plan on building an expect script and a ksh script to acquire some information and pass to the expect script. I'm very new with expect and figured I would start off slow. However, I use the spawn telnet command, run the script, and it prints out "spawn telnet" rather than doing anything. I'm working for a company that uses expect and have scripts in place already that work using the commands I'm using. Any help is greatly appreciated...below is some information about what I'm doing/getting.

Code:
<OLD>/Testfiles# ll test1.exp
-rwxrwx--- 1 root system 58 Nov 16 10:25 test1.exp
 
<OLD>/Testfiles# cat test1.exp
#!/usr/local/bin/expect -f
spawn telnet [lindex $argv 0]
 
<OLD>/Testfiles# ./test1.exp hello
spawn telnet hello
 
<OLD>/Testfiles# which expect
/usr/local/bin/expect
 
<OLD>/Testfiles# ll /usr/local/bin/expect
-rwx------ 1 root system 288083 Oct 20 2008 /usr/local/bin/expect
 
<OLD>/Testfiles#


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Last edited by radoulov; 11-23-2012 at 11:32 AM..
# 2  
Old 11-16-2012
What's your system?
# 3  
Old 11-16-2012
System
I'm using AIX 5.3 The other expect scripts are handled by cron.
# 4  
Old 11-23-2012
I came across the debug command, exp_internal 1, and now get the following...

Code:
<OLD>/Testfiles# ./test1.exp hello
spawn telnet hello
parent: waiting for sync byte
parent: telling child to go ahead
parent: now unsynchronized from child
spawn: returns {57878}

---------- Post updated at 02:14 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:27 AM ----------

I added "interact" command to the end of my script, and it runs...so it seems that expect just had nothing to do.

I'd feel like a newbie, but it seems everyone else has the information gap too.
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