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bruno nery
bruno nery

Reputation: 2052

expect vs. bash read

I'm trying to use expect to talk to a bash script, but I'm missing something. My script is:

#!/bin/bash
echo -n "foo? "
read
echo $REPLY

and my expect script is:

#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn ./script.sh
expect "foo? "
send "bar\r\n"

But I never see bar when I run the expect script. What am I missing here?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2102

Answers (2)

dimba
dimba

Reputation: 27581

I don't familiar well with expect syntax, but you worth try autoexpect:

autoexpect ./script.sh

It will run script.sh and after you'll finish running it an expect script script.exp will be created in current directory.

After than you can edit it if you need to tune something in it.

Upvotes: 1

bruno nery
bruno nery

Reputation: 2052

Dumb me, I needed to add interact to my expect script so that it can finish "interacting" with the script:

#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn ./script.sh
expect "foo? "
send "bar\r\n"
interact

I found the answer here two minutes after asking this question.

Upvotes: 2

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