Re: Setting Variables in expect Scripts From Shell Output
Roger Olofsson writes: If you're not too worried about speed my old trick to circumvent this was to simply write the variable to a temporary file then read in that file for the send_user thing later on...Providing the send_user is a script, mind you. An excellent idea. I just wanted to be sure I wasn't missing something else. In this case speed isn't a problem since what I am doing is allowing all our group to get a current copy of the syslog file on our DHCP server when they need to look at something and not all of them have or need accounts there so the script uses an account that does work to get the file and then it will hand the caller the file with all the right permissions. To complicate things, more than one caller might use the script simultaneously so I need to use a temporary file name and keep track of it so that nobody clobbers anybody else's file. All that part is done except for that last part and that is what you helped with. Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting Variables in expect Scripts From Shell Output
Martin McCormick skrev: While running an expect script, is it possible to set an expect script variable to the string kept in a shell variable? I can generate the shell variable just fine but when I try to export it to the expect script for later use with something like: set LOGFILENAME [exec echo \$TMPFILE] something happens without error, but a later attempt to see the contents of it such as send_user $LOGFILENAME\n proves that it never got set. It just echoes the literal string LOGFILENAME. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you're not too worried about speed my old trick to circumvent this was to simply write the variable to a temporary file then read in that file for the send_user thing later on...Providing the send_user is a script, mind you. Just my nickels worth...remember to delete the tempfile though. /R ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
