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save output into file Posted by astreet (astreet), 2 February 2007 Hi,i want to send a command to remote machine and save the output of the command to local. how can i do that with expect script? my script as below ---------------------------------------------------------- set output [open "outputfile.txt" "w"] expect -re "(\\\$ |# )" { send "ls -ltr /tmp\r" } expect -re "\r\n(.*)\r\n" set outcome $expect_out(0,string) puts $output $outcome close $output ------------------------------------------------------------ by right, the ouput for ls -ltr /tmp is 30 lines but the outputfile.txt only capture up to 15 lines. Something wrong with script? grateful for reply. Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 2 February 2007 Your expect string is woolly - it's matched in the middle of the response so you've only got part of your response into the file. You need to look for something to identify the end of the ls reportPosted by astreet (astreet), 2 February 2007 yup...may i know what should i do with my script? or you can provide a simple script which serve the same purpose. Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 3 February 2007 The "problem" with expect is it sits on top of everything esle ... so that any example I provide would be OS and shell specific and might not work for you. What you need to do is to run ls in the way that expect does, then look for an identifying end string. Actually, I think your clue may be inexpect -re "(\\\$ |# )" as that's the prompt string ... why not simply wait for that a second time rather than waiting for expect -re "\r\n(.*)\r\n" ? Posted by astreet (astreet), 5 February 2007 i just can capture # if i wait for expect -re "(\\\$ |# )" I am able to capture all the output if i code like below ------------------------------------------------------------------ set output [open "outputfile.txt" "w"] expect -re "(\\\$ |# )" { send "ls -ltr /tmp\r" } expect -re "\r\n(.*)\r\n" set outcome $expect_out(0,string) expect -re "\r\n(.*)\r\n" set outcome $expect_out(0,string) expect -re "\r\n(.*)\r\n" set outcome $expect_out(0,string) expect -re "\r\n(.*)\r\n" set outcome $expect_out(0,string) puts $output $outcome close $output ---------------------------------------------------------------- how come i need to expect so many time then only can capture all output?? Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 6 February 2007 on 02/05/07 at 06:04:32, astreet wrote:
Because the string you are matching occurs many times and so you're only matching on the input stream as far as it's been generated to each point. Please - look for a unique sequence at the end ad recode to look for that. If my suggestion made previously didn't work, look for an alternative that does. It will depend on what shell you're running and how you have your environment variables, such as your prompt, set. Posted by astreet (astreet), 6 February 2007 Finally my script can work for what i want.Thanks for the clue from raham Ellis. ^^ ---------------------------------------------------------- set output [open "outputfile.txt" "w"] expect -re "(\\\$ |# )" { send "ls -ltr /tmp\r" } expect -re "\r\n(.*)\r(.*)(\\\$ |# )" set outcome $expect_out(1,string) send "\r" puts $output $outcome close $output ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------- normal unix command ---------------------------- server $ ls -ltr output . . . . output server $ ---------------------------- expect script ---------------------------- server $ ls -ltr\r \n output(.*) . . . . output\r server(.*) $ This page is a thread posted to the opentalk forum
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