How to use 'expect' to pass UID & Password to a "for loop" in shell script?
Friends,
Need someone's help in helping me with the below requirement for a script:
> For a list of servers(over 100+), I need to login into each of them(cannot configure password-less ssh) & grab few configuration details <
I know, this is possible through expect programming in a simple shell script, but unfortunately I'm not able to get one to work as required. Below is what I could manage to write without expected results:
Running the above written expect script doesn't solve my purpose - it does nothing Could someone help me rectify this script or help me with a better idea?
-- Souvik
Last edited by thisissouvik; 11-11-2013 at 10:56 AM..
Reason: Reorganizing!
Your basic expect based script did the ground work for me - could login to any server passing the hostname to parameter "h", so this is how my little modified script looks now:
I could not manage to pass multiple server names to this expect script, the methods I tried --
1. Called this expect script from an external "for" & "while" loop -- got an obvious error of parameter "h" not found:
2. Added a "for" loop within the above expect script:
That failed since it couldn't understand expect syntaxe(s) within the for loop.
Did you try the while loop that I listed in my last post? I mentioned that reading files inside of Expect is a bit flaky. If you create a while loop to read the file containing your hostnames and then send them as an argument to the Expect script, it will store it in the h variable.
That's what this line does:
So to put it all together, let's say the Expect script is named sendCmd:
I haven't found file I/O to be flaky in expect, but I must admit I only really use expect to test solutions posted in the forum. I find it a bit of a hacking tool and would prefer to use passwordless ssh for my own work.
The below script should open the server_list file, connect to each server run the configured command ("multibos -S" in this case) and log the output to a file name config_details with a "hostname:" prefix.
Also note: I'm using telnet in this script and you may want ssh or some other command.
Uncomment the log_user 0 line to suppress output once you have finished debugging.
Last edited by Chubler_XL; 02-25-2017 at 03:26 PM..
Tried tweaking in2nix's code to allign to my reqd with the following 'expect' code:
And then applied the below 'while' loop:
Below is the error I get while the script tries to create a /export/home/msouvik/echo.out.$h file on the target servers:
==[ Error ]==
msouvik@my_target_server1 password: msouvik@my_target_server1 password:
scp: /export/home/msouvik/echo.out.my_target_server1: No such file or directory
msouvik@my_target_server2 password: msouvik@my_target_server2 password:
scp: /export/home/msouvik/echo.out.my_target_server2: No such file or directory ==
Find it really weird 'coz the script is not able to create a file named /export/home/msouvik/echo.out.$h on the target servers, however it is able to do so without the $h suffix to the filename.
Any leads pls?
-- Souvik P.S: I'll try to understand XL's script before I implement it tomorrow
I expected a response from one of you today, but none
I could manage to get my requirement by adding echo.out.$h in the scp portion of the script & not in the set cmd section as below:
However, this modification is creating a new problem - now the portion of code(highlighted in red) isn't working, it simply doesn't write to the file on the destination server. I've pasted the above code as it is from the server.
I'm not able to catch what happened to the working code with this small modification, could one you guys help me here? Excuse me (if) I'm forcing you guys to help
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