[Expectperl-discuss] Problem catching the SSH2 prompt using Expect

[Mathias D. <mde...@ho...>]

Hello,

I am using Expect 1.15 on the Perl for Cygwin release 5.6.1-2. I want to use 
Expect with SSH2 to automate some commands that I have to do regularly on 
remote servers.

But so far I have not been able to do this properly. I am using F-Secure SSH 
for Windows, maybe this causes some trouble? With F-Secure SSH2, I am not 
able to give any parameter to the process, and with a sftp2 from SSH, the 
password is entered succesfully by the script after catching the password 
prompt, but then I can't do anything else, as Expect doesn't seem to catch 
the prompt given by sftp2.

Some other tests seem to show that I have the same problem when using ftp. 
The prompt is shown on the screen, but Expect won't catch it.

Is this a known issue?? I'm getting quite desperate.

Here is my very simple sample script:

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#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use Expect

$Expect::Log_Stdout=1;
$Expect::Exp_Internal=1;

my $cmd="/path/sftp2 -P port user\@IP.IP.IP.IP";

my $process = new Expect;
$process->raw_pty(1);
$process->spawn($cmd);
$process->expect(10, "word: ");
$process->send("mypassword\n");
$process->expect(10, "sftp>");      # here, sftp> appears on the screen, but 
isn't read by Expect
$process->send("ls\n");             # consequently, ls\n is written after 
the timeout occurs, but there is no reaction from sftp. Moreover, if I type 
the ls command by hand on the keyboard, it'll work
$process->expect("sftp>");



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