Re: [Expectperl-discuss] pipeline question (fwd)

[Roland G. <r.g...@xs...>]

> Since you're interested, this is the guts of what I am trying to do:
> 
> spawn("rsh machine dump_cmd various args... mount-point |cat -|dd bs=64k of=tape-device");
> 
> then use expect to catch the message:
> "End of tape reached.  Press RETURN when new tape loaded ..."
> (message varies depending on the dump software - yes, I'm doing this
> from multiple machines/OSes/dump commands, each with different
> idiosyncrasies, arguments, etc...)
> 
> When I get the expect message, I call a sub to change tapes using the
> tape robot.  That's the plan anyway.  :)

Oh, OK, that's a perfectly valid use for Expect... :-)

BTW, what's the use of that noop-cat inside that pipe?  'dd' already does
all the buffering you need...

Good luck with that project!

Roland
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