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Old 01-13-2013
Expect script - Interact help

Hi Guys,
Further to my post yesterday I have got round the issue of not being able to use expect by using one of our unix machines to have the script running instead of the jumpbox itself. However my issue is I now have an extra bit it the script which is shh to the jumpbox which requires a ras token key to be entered.

How do I go about the the below ? I want the script to allow user interaction to enter the ras key and then pass control back to the script.

Im new to scripting so used auto expect, Thanks for all your support.

Code:
send -- "ssh ******@*******\r"
expect -exact "ssh ******@********\r
Enter PASSCODE:"
send -- "*********\r" - ras token required
expect -exact "\r


Last edited by Scott; 01-14-2013 at 03:01 AM.. Reason: Code tags
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Old 01-13-2013
You can prompt for RAS token outside of expect and pass as command line arg:

Code:
read -p "RAS Token: " token_str
expect -f your_expect_script $token_str

Then in your_expect_script use:

Code:
send -- "ssh ******@*******\r"
expect -exact "ssh ******@********\r
Enter PASSCODE:"
send -- "[lindex $argv 0]\r"

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