I'm working on a small script to try and automate the installation of pear on a system should it be missing - basically, taking the interactive portions of the installation process and making them non-interactive so all I need to do is execute the script and it does it for me on its own. This is my first time trying to use expect and it's, well, not what I expected.
Sample code below:
/usr/bin/expect <<EOD
set timeout 20
set number [lindex $argv 0]
set path [lindex $argv 1]
spawn php -q go-pear.phar
expect "1-11, 'all' or Enter to continue:"
send "$number\r"
interact
expect "Installation base ($prefix) [/usr/local] :"
send "$path\r"
interact
EOD
This is not quite working at the moment as it's trying to fill in the /usr/local portion in the first menu as follows:
1-11, 'all' or Enter to continue: invalid command name "/usr/local"
while executing
"/usr/local"
invoked from within
"expect "Installation base () [/usr/local] :""
Can anyone show me what I'm missing here? Also, I'd like to get this so I don't have to run it as ./script $var0 $var1 but rather just run it as ./script with everything being contained within and filled in, but not sure how to do that.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
I ended up figuring this out. In case anyone else wants to do something similar, here's what worked for me:
/usr/bin/expect <<EOF
set send_slow {1 .1}
set timeout -1
spawn php -q go-pear.phar
expect "1-11, 'all' or Enter to continue:"
sleep .1
send -s -- "1\r"
expect -exact "1\r"
sleep .1
send -s -- "/usr/local\r"
expect -exact "/usr/local\r"
expect "1-11, 'all' or Enter to continue:"
sleep .1
send -s -- "\r"
expect -exact "\r"
expect EOF