No, the `expect` command is watching the spawned process (stdout and
stderr), and it blocks until it sees the text Password appear. Then the
`send` command sends the password to the spawned process (stdin).
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 3:40 PM Tassilo Horn <t...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Glenn Jackman <jack...@pythian.com> writes:
>
> Hi Glenn,
>
> > This is a good use case for Expect, I think. Something like
>
> Oh, I didn't know it so far but the below looks promising.
>
> > ```tcl
> > #!/usr/bin/env expect
> >
> > spawn openvpn ...
> > expect Password
> > send -- "$password\r"
>
> Does
>
> expect Foo
>
> prompt for Foo and automatically bind what was typed to a variable $foo?
>
> > # any other prompts before the connection is made...
> >
> > interact {
> > \x003 {
> > # user hit Ctrl+C
> > foreach mount {/mnt/a /mnt/b /mnt/c} {
> > puts "unmounting $mount"
> > exec umount $mount
> > }
> > send \x003 ;# send the Ctrl+C to openvpn
> > }
> > }
> > puts "bye"
> > ```
>
> Thanks,
> Tassilo
>
>
>
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