Warren Mansur writes:
> Does anyone know if it's possible to script telnet or ftp sessions? I
> mean, normally you can type 'ftp blah' or 'telnet blah' and then obtain
> an interactive prompt. But, is there a way to write a script that will
> telnet or ftp, and then execute some commands without the user having to
> interact at all?
Get Expect.
(My opinion: Expect's usefulness outweighs TCL's hokey syntax.
However, if you've run up against a brick wall with TCL, check out
Perl's Expect module -- it works very well)
--kevin
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