TCL expect regular expression

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Harikrishnan R picture Harikrishnan R · Jun 27, 2011 · Viewed 7.8k times · Source


I am trying to write one script which climbs up from one system to another through TCL/Expect. It is working for me. I need a regular expression in which expect "$ " and expect "# " is combined , so that any system with any prompt in the path can be included. 

#!/usr/bin/expect
# Using ssh from expect

log_user 0
spawn ssh [email protected]
expect "sword: "
send "test\r"
expect "$ "
send "ssh beta\r"
expect "# "
send "uptime\r"
expect "# "

set igot $expect_out(buffer)
puts $igot

Answer

Donal Fellows picture Donal Fellows · Jun 27, 2011

Use this:

expect -re {[$#] }

The keys to this are: add the -re flag so that we can match an RE, and put the RE in {braces} so that it doesn't get substituted.

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