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acz
acz

Reputation: 97

Expect ssh and create directory

I'm having some trouble with expect.

I'm trying to ssh onto another machine and then create a directory on that machine.

Right now this is what my code looks like:

spawn ssh username@ipAddress
expect "password"
send "password"
file mkdir directoryName

That code is giving me a "permission denied".

When I try replacing

file mkdir directoryName

with

send "mkdir directoryName"

There's no error, but it doesn't make a file. Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 864

Answers (2)

mihir6692
mihir6692

Reputation: 337

This might help you :-

#!/usr/bin/expect
set timeout -1
spawn -noecho bash -c "ssh username@serveraddress 'cd /user/bill/work;<your=command>'"
expect {
-re "assword:"{
    send "mypassword/r"
}eof{
    wait
}

You must send the command inside ssh as it will run on remote machine.

Explanation for above script :-

set timeout -1will set this loop in infinite (but it will exit once spawn process is finished.

-re will match regex for assword:

eof will wait until spawn is finish.

Upvotes: 1

Dinesh
Dinesh

Reputation: 16438

After sending mkdir command, wait for eof to happen.

send "mkdir directoryName\r"
expect eof

Upvotes: 0

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