I am writing a Bash script and using Expect to do sftp. Now in the Expect block I want to access a Bash variable in a conditional statement. But, I am unable to do so. How can do this?
Also, the execution of this script is controlled from a C program and I want redirect the output to a log file (which again is dynamic). Can I do that and suppress all the output on standard output.
Here is the code:
!/usr/bin/bash
host=$1
user=$2
pass=$3
action=$4
path=$5
echo "Starting...."
function doAction {
strAction="\""$action"\""
echo $strAction
/usr/bin/expect <<EOF > logfile.txt
**set bashaction $strAction**
spawn sftp $user@$host
expect "password:"
send "$pass\r"
expect"sftp>"
send "cd $path\r"
**if {$bashaction == "TEST"} {**
expect "sftp>"
send "prompt\r"
}
expect "sftp>"
send <sftp command>
expect "sftp>"
send_user "quit\n"
exit
EOF
}
doAction
echo "DONE....."
For 1. using an Expect script instead worked.
For the logging issue, using log_user 0
and log_file -a <file>
helped.
You don't need to use Bash. Expect can handle all that:
#!/usr/bin/expect
set host [lindex $argv 0]
set user [lindex $argv 1]
set pass [lindex $argv 2]
set action [lindex $argv 3]
set path [lindex $argv 4]
puts "Starting...."
puts "\"$action\""
spawn sftp $user@$host
expect "password:"
send "$pass\r"
expect"sftp>"
send "cd $path\r"
if {$action == "TEST"} {
# Do something
} else {
# Do something else
}
expect "sftp>"
send_user "quit\r"
puts "DONE....."
Coming from Bash, the Tcl/Expect syntax is a little strange, but you should not have any problem expanding the above skeleton.