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pktCoder
pktCoder

Reputation: 1115

Timeout in expect

Trying to automate a ssh process. The prompt I got when ssh into a host is:

ubuntu@ip-172-30-2-110:~$

My expect script

spawn ssh [email protected]
expect ":~\$ "

This will timeout while waiting for the pattern.

However, if I change the expect statement to be 

expect "\$ "

it works fine (no wait).

Wonder why.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 497

Answers (1)

pktCoder
pktCoder

Reputation: 1115

Turned out the the ":" and "~" in the prompt :~$ is colored in the terminal.

Found that the following expect statement works (it results in a match)

expect -re ":.{8}~.{5}\\\$ "

Upvotes: 2

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