Re: [Expectperl-discuss] conditional prompt?

[Austin S. <te...@of...>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:25:19AM -0700, Noah wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sometimes the RSA fingerprint is not in ~/.ssh/known_hosts so the prompt 
> could be different.
> 
> what would be the best way to handle the differences.  there is one more 
> prompt to handle, defined as $prompt2, when the IP or hostname does not 
> appear in ~/.ssh/known_hosts.  How would you handle the condition and 
> then move back to accepting $prompt1?
> 
> 
> 
>      $prompt1 = ".*password:";
>      $prompt2 = "^[^?]+?\s";
>      my $patidx = $exp->expect($timeout, [$prompt]);
> 

	Expect both prompts at once. Run until $prompt1 is matched.
	You can do this one of two ways: use the simple interface
and wrap it in a while loop, or you can use the "Tcl like" interface and
use exp_continue. See the expect example in the synopsis section of the docs.

	Austin