embed expect in shell script?

[Jun Zhang_4]

What will the following expect script be like, without the #!/usr/local/bin/expect -f? Or is there such a way at all?
I'm thinking about embed this expect piece in shell script and use as much known script (ksh, for example) syntax as possible.

Jun


set timeout -1
spawn /opt/samba/bin/smbpasswd -a ultvm
match_max 100000
expect -exact "New SMB password:"
send -- "!ultvm!\r"
expect -exact "\r
Retype new SMB password:"
send -- "!ultvm!\r"
expect eof

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

If you don't want to put #!/usr/local/bin/expect, then you would need to do something like this

#!/usr/bin/ksh #or whatever your shell is


your_shell_script_commands

/usr/local/bin/expect << EOF
set timeout -1
spawn /opt/samba/bin/smbpasswd -a ultvm
match_max 100000
expect -exact "New SMB password:"
send -- "!ultvm!\r"
expect -exact "\r
Retype new SMB password:"
send -- "!ultvm!\r"
expect eof
EOF

rest_of_the_shell_script

Alternatively, you can dump this in a file and ask run expect over that file like

/usr/local/bin/expect your_expect_commands_file

-Sri

[Geoff Wild]

It won't work - atleast I don't think so...

What we do, is sh script most, then inside the sh script, call the expect script (which we use for sftp).

Rgds...Geoff

[Jun Zhang_4]

Thanks a lot for the answers. The pull down arrow is not available right now for assigning points. Let me wait and see if it comes back.


Jun