Re: shell script

[Gaal Yahas]

On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 02:37:20PM +0300, Mike wrote:
> Hi all
> Does anyone know how to connect to a remote host by telnet using a shell
> script ?
> I need to get some data using a telnet.

Everybody's gonna laugh, but here's a quick'n'dirty way:

% cat>data-file
mylogin
mysecretpassword
acommand
anothercommand
yetanothercommand
etc
exit
^D

% perl -pe 'sleep 2' < data-file | telnet host


:-)

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