On Mon, Oct 16, 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello, > >I am trying to capture telnet output to a file. For example I want to >telnet into a router and run the command ?show arp? and be able to >capture all the arp information that normally would show up on the >screen to a file on my system. I am using python and pexpect to >backup my router configurations on a daily basis, but for this the >router has the option to send the configuration via tftp to a server, >there is no option to send normal screen data to a file. Any ideas?
One could use the ``script'' program in *NIX systems which captures your entire session. I haven't used pexpect with python yet, but the perl expect module can also be used to capture things like this, and I would expect that one could do this with pexpect as well. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 ``If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.'' -President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
