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I use the following idiom all the time:<BR>
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#!/usr/bin/bash<BR>
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cmd="clear counters interface all"<BR>
host=$1<BR>
port=23<BR>
login="%%%%%"<BR>
password="&&&&&&"<BR>
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(/usr/bin/echo open $host $port<BR>
sleep 2<BR>
/usr/bin/echo "$login"<BR>
/usr/bin/echo "\r"<BR>
sleep 2<BR>
/usr/bin/echo "$password"<BR>
/usr/bin/echo "\r"<BR>
sleep 2<BR>
/usr/bin/echo "$cmd"<BR>
/usr/bin/echo "\r"<BR>
sleep 1<BR>
/usr/bin/echo "y"<BR>
/usr/bin/echo "\r"<BR>
sleep 1<BR>
/usr/bin/echo "close"<BR>
/usr/bin/echo "\r" ) | /usr/bin/telnet<BR>
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HTH,<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT COLOR="#666666">Nathan Embery</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#999999">Systems Manager</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#999999">nembery@met-net.com</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#999999">c. 724 825 1168</FONT></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#999999">o. 412 567 4318</FONT></FONT><BR>
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On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 17:18 -0400, Paul Oehler wrote:
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> Any other ideas? I just need to telnet to a device, send a command,
> wait for a paticular response and send the next command. Ideally I
> could do this in some kind of loop too.
Expect really is the way to go for this kind of thing, it's designed just
this kind of interaction. I'm not aware of anything else that makes this
kind of task easy.
Paul
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