Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Question with expect on storing command output.

[Matt Z. <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Rajan Vijayaraghavan
<raj...@gm...> wrote:
> I tried $expect_obj->before() but it does not return the entire output.
>
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Satish Pothuri <sat...@gm...>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> you can use expect before() function to get the command output. It
>> actually captures the date from last expect string to current expect string.
>> variable =  $exp_obj->before()
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Rajan Vijayaraghavan
>> <raj...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>> All,
>>> I am using Perl with Expect for automating wpa_cli for wps.
>>> I have a general question. For example if a command has been sent to
>>> to either a remote machine or a spawned process, how to read the
>>> entire output of the command executed. How does expect store so
>>> that I can parse and use it for later purpose?

Note, this is from memory:

>From Expect.pm:

$object->log_file("filename" | $filehandle | \&coderef | undef)

my $expect_io;
$object->log_file(sub { $expect_io .= $_; });

#Do stuff with Expect

#Do stuff with $expect_io;

HTH

-matt