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user1293997
user1293997

Reputation: 895

wildcard in expect script doesn't work

I have the following script running successfully. However if I try to use a wildcard, to copy multiple files, it throws an error, saying “No such file or directory”.

This code works:

#!/usr/bin/expect -f
spawn scp file1.txt [email protected]:/temp1/.
expect "password:"
send "iamroot\r"
expect "*\r"
expect "\r"

The following doesn't work:

#!/usr/bin/expect -f
spawn scp * [email protected]:/temp/. #fails here
….

Upvotes: 5

Views: 14213

Answers (2)

ctrl-alt-delor
ctrl-alt-delor

Reputation: 7735

The * is usually expanded by the shell (bash), but in this case you shell is expect. I suspect that expect is not expanding the *.

try:

spawn bash -c 'scp * [email protected]:/temp/.'

explanation:

#!/usr/bin/expect -f
spawn echo *
expect "*"

spawn bash -c 'echo *'
expect "file1 file2…"

Upvotes: 8

Morfic
Morfic

Reputation: 15508

AFAIK scp defaults to file copy while bash might expand * to directories also, if any is found in the current path.

Perhaps trying a -r (recursive) could solve your problem (not sure as I can't test the scenario right now)?

Or if you do not want to copy the whole folder structure, you could use scp *.txt ... depending on your needs.

Upvotes: -1

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