Script problem

[Kenn Chen]

Currently, I've created a script to manipulate the lanadmin command. First i login to lanadmin and type lan and display to view the inbound octets value. This is the script :-

lanadmin << EOF
lan display
?? ===> I need a key here. How ??
clear
?? ===> I need to get the inbound octets
value. How ??

I wish to get the value every mins. Any idea.
Thanks.

[Philip Chan_1]

Maybe "EXPECT" can help,

http://expect.nist.gov/

Expect is a tool for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, etc. And of course it should work for lanadmin as well.

~Philip

[Uffe Gavnholt_1]

if you make an input file to use with your script, let's call it input

in vi you specify everything normally, where a return is simply a new line.

If you want the actual value of a key specified in vi, you can in input mode press ^V followed by the key you want represented as the value.

next use the input file as:

lanadmin < input

Good luck

Uffe

[Danny Engelbarts · Accepted solution]

Chen,

This should work;

lanadmin << !EOF 2>&1 | grep "Inbound Octets"
lan display

q
!EOF

Greetz, Danny

[Kenn Chen]

Thanks. Could you pls to explain the script that you given such as << 2 &1 'cos i dun have any script background. thanks.