On 2007.09.25 12:56 Sonia Hamilton wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:25:44 +1000, "Robert Thorsby"
I prefer to use one of the *dialog utilities (ie, dialog,
kdialog, gdialog, or -- my dialog-du-jour -- Xdialog) in
a shell script and validate the user input in the script.
It looks a helluva lot better than expect via a command
line. It's prolly also more versatile.
Not sure how *dialogs would help :-)
I want to (as a simple example) update my password on n
*nix machines using the passwd command, ... . With expect
I can automatically feed in the old and new passwords when
prompted as passwd is run via ssh on each of the n machines.
I could also (for example) use awk/perl/tool-du-jour on
/etc/shadow on each machine, but that's nasty, especially
across different Linuxes/SunOSs/versions.
I do not understand how you can't do this with *dialogs. But, whatever
floats your boat.
Robert Thorsby
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