[Expectperl-discuss] Having problems with prompt

[amit1017 <gos...@ho...>]

Hi guys,

I am new to perl and expect.  I started putting a script together that
telnets into desired devices one at a time and runs specified commands. 
Problem I have is, that the prompt on this hosts does not follow a certain
norm.  Some prompts are in caps, some are in lower caps.  Normally, prompts
are device names, but in some case our device names exceeds the number of
characters allowed in the hostname, so it cuts of the exceeded letters.  So
having the following doesn't really work at times:

$telnet->expect($timeout, "$HostName");

Is there anyway, I can do this.  That once I spawn the telnet session and
log in.  The prompt that it gets, it stores it into a variable and than I
can leverage that variable throughout my script wherever it expects a
prompt.

Also, these devices are all cisco devices.  Is there a recommended timeout
values? I have $telnet->exp_internal(1) in my script.  So In middle of the
output after a command is run, I see several /r's.  Thanks in advance for
your help.

Amit.
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