Re: [Expectperl-discuss] How to store the output from expect process

[Aiman H. <ha...@gm...>]

Hi Austin,

Thanks very much. You save my day..
This is what I look for, and you're also right in space in sftp prompt. It
works before just because it is time out.. w/o I realised it.

Anyhow.. thanks again!!
Regards.

On 3/16/07, Austin Schutz <te...@of...> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 03:18:31AM +0800, Aiman Hakimie wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm new to this Expect. Just found out and decided to use in my current
> > project assignment. Really appreciate any help. I've trying to look
> > somewhere else (unsuccessfully) before decided to post it here.
> >
> > I want to use expect to do sftp. After login, I'll get the list of
> available
> > files in the directory, and from the list, I'll need to do some matching
> > with localhost list to get the file that is not in the local host.
> >
> > I trying to do something like this:
> > .......
> > ........
> > my $ret = $exp->expect(30,"sftp>") || die "Timeout waiting for sftp.\n";
> > $exp->send("cd /tmp\n");
> >
> > $exp->expect(10,"sftp>");
> > my @file=$exp->send("ls A*\n");
> >
> > foreach $file (@file) {
> >   #do comparison
> >   # if not match,
> >    $exp->send("get $file\n");
> > }
> > .....
> > ....
> >
> >
> > Line "my @file=$exp->send("ls A*\n");" does;t give me the file list that
> I
> > want. I can do like this using Net::FTP, but not using Expect.
> >
> > Is there any way to achieve this?
>
>         sftp (on my machine) uses the prompt 'sftp> '. That space is
> important.
>         Typically you want to send \r instead of \n, that may or may not
> matter here.
>         Use $exp->exp_internal(1) so you can watch what is sent/received.
>         $exp->before() contains output before the last expect() match. in
> this case it will have the output of ls.
>
>         Austin
>