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  From: John Edwards <isplist@pinnacle.net.au>
  To  : Steve Sloan <steve@lansol.com.au>
        Linux-SA <LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 12:04:06 +0930

Re: Bash script

>I have a need to write a small script that will log onto another server, do
>a small task and log off again.
>I want to use SSH to logon which is no problem but is there a command to
>stop the script and wait for a reply from the host and then enter the
>passwd.

You can use an 'expect' script to do what you suggest, where you need to
wait for a certain output before providing input. 'autoexpect' will write
the script for you.

Although if it's to ssh to another server, you might want to do it with
identity/key files instead, so that it doesn't prompt for a password and
behaves more like rsh.

John Edwards


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