I'm trying to execute commands remotely over ssh using an expect script that will log in with a password. So far I have the following script (details changed of course):
#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn ssh [email protected]
expect "password:"
send "psw123\r"
expect "$"
send "mkdir pswdtest\r"
I name this script testpswd.sh and then runchmod +x testpswd.sh, d2u testpswd.sh and ./testpswd.sh.
Apparently the script manages to login because I get the Last login:... prompt. However, after this the script seems to wait for a bit and then exit back out of ssh, without making a directory called pswdtest (as I can check afterwards).
I have tried looking up tutorials etc and changing the script above in all ways I could think of, e.g. expect "user1@cpu3:~$"instead of expect "$" and so on.
I'm running windows and use cygwin (hence the d2u), and the network I'm logging into uses Linux.
Any ideas?
While developing an expect script, always add exp_internal 1 at the top of the script: expect will show you what it's matching (or not).
Perhaps you could match the prompt with this: expect -re {\$\s*$}
After you send something, you should expect something
exp_internal 1
set prompt {\$\s*$}
spawn ssh [email protected]
expect "password:"
send "psw123\r"
expect -re $prompt
send "mkdir pswdtest\r"
expect -re $prompt
send "exit\r"
expect eof