Re: shell script
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, guy keren wrote: On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Alex Shnitman wrote: Does anyone know how to connect to a remote host by telnet using a shell script ? I need to get some data using a telnet. man expect Should get you started in 15 minutes. actually, you're throwing in a hammer when sometimes a small screwdriver would fit. or at least if this is for connecting to a port that requires no user name or password, and one has a shell script that should only get this addition, one might even do (using bourn shell, sh): MYVARIABLE=`telnet some.host.name 1234 | grep "the interesting line" | ..` With current bash/telnet this does not work as expected. Telnet chokes if its stdin is not a tty. I had to do things like `yes|telnet somewhere|...`. Peter
Re: shell script
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Peter L. Peres wrote: MYVARIABLE=`telnet some.host.name 1234 | grep "the interesting line" | ..` With current bash/telnet this does not work as expected. Telnet chokes if its stdin is not a tty. Ihad to do things like `yes|telnet somewhere|...`. Just use netcat then. Regards, Nir. -- Nir Soffer * scorpios @ cs.huji.ac.il * http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~scorpios/ "From the moment I picked your book up until I put it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it." -- Groucho Marx, from "The Book of Insults" Mail me with the subject 'get pgp key' for my PGP Public Key
Re: shell script
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Alex Shnitman wrote: Does anyone know how to connect to a remote host by telnet using a shell script ? I need to get some data using a telnet. man expect Should get you started in 15 minutes. actually, you're throwing in a hammer when sometimes a small screwdriver would fit. or at least if this is for connecting to a port that requires no user name or password, and one has a shell script that should only get this addition, one might even do (using bourn shell, sh): MYVARIABLE=`telnet some.host.name 1234 | grep "the interesting line" | ..` using awk or sed or whatever in the end to extract the relevant data. (not saying proposing 'expect' isn't a good idea). guy
Re: shell script
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Mike wrote: Use expect --Ariel Hi all Does anyone know how to connect to a remote host by telnet using a shell script ? I need to get some data using a telnet. Thank you Mike +---+ | Ariel Biener | | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work phone: 03-6406086 | | fingerprint = 07 D1 E5 3E EF 6D E5 82 0B E9 21 D4 3C 7D 8B BC | +---+
