[wplug] Help with expect - sending special chars

Eric Cooper ecc at cmu.edu
Fri Sep 18 15:33:00 EDT 2009


On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 03:13:50PM -0400, scoob8000 wrote:
> I'm trying to automate a telnet session to make hundreds of changes
> for me.  So far expect seems to be the best solution.  But I need to
> send a $ as part of my command.  I for the life of me cannot figure
> out how to make expect to quit seeing it as a variable.  I think
> I've tried about everything, double quotes, escaping it with a \,
> etc.

I found a random page that claims "\\$" should work, but I haven't
tried it myself.

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u


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