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How do I get my expect statement to not output the stdout of the first command?
What I'm trying to do is execute an ssh command that prints out the /etc/shadow file. Obviously that file requires root or sudo permission, and I don't have root creds, therefore I have to use sudo. ...
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How to toggle outlet power to Eaton ePDU G3 from shell script
I'm trying to programmatically toggle power to several outlets on a Eaton ePDU G3 using ssh via Jenkins CI shell script. This is to fire up lidars only during a Jenkins run. It is not clear how to do ...
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Expect not exiting non-zero
My real goal is to have a script that will run locally to ssh into a remote server, restart tomcat, and use expect to wait for the "Server startup in" message, or exit non-zero if it sees startup ...
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Automating SSH login gives unresponsive remote-shell, dropping back to client-terminal (without errors)
I have a problem with the tool expect under Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I want to automate ssh logins to some Sophos UTM Firewalls and evelate my rights directly after with "sudo su -" and the correct password. ...
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How can I set up nautilus to use a ssh connection established by an expect script?
In order to automate a ssh connection, I wrote a script using expect, which works just fine. However, I would like to use this script in the nautilus connect to server function. My idea was to include ...
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Automating an ssh connection with crontab
I've been struggling to crontab automate a git push process with ssh, and it's proving tricky to setup a key with the ssh agent. Starting with a basic script to test the agent:
# set paths (all ...
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expect command in ubuntu
I've searched all over SuperUser, but couldn't get the solution.
Here is a script that am using for ssh using expect. I'm using ubuntu and I've installed expect using aptitude install expect.
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Linux: ssh command works outside bash script, but not within script?
I am having problem with the following command:
echo "Pass for router:"
read -s pass
/usr/bin/expect - << EXPCT
spawn ssh 192.168.10.1 -l root 'opkg list-installed' > list-installed.txt
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how to run a local script in remote server using expect and bash script
I want to make a script that will connect to a server and do some CRUD operation on the server and again return to local. I do not want to upload the script to server..
I have made a script that ...
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SSH + Sudo + Expect in Bash script: Run command with sudo in remote machine
I am trying to automate the deploy of some .deb packages with an script. I want to execute sudo dpkg -i $myDeb.deb in a list of remote machines I can access with ssh.
I've tried to automate the ...
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Why doesn't redirect work for scp password input?
I want to copy from remote box with scp, while the fact that each time I have to re-enter password is annoying. So I store my password in plain text and expect the following code should work
scp -...
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Can the expect utility handle a case where the process it spawns also spawns a sub process?
I'm trying to use expect to handle rsync over an ssh shell, but it gets stuck.
If I run my rsync command it works (simplified here): It prompts me for my password and copies files to the server:
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