invoke telnet from some shell script which grabs the output of that invocation and disregard the first three ( or unwanted lines) of response by passing them to /dev/null and process the rest of the information by either passing on the control to base shell Or processing the further execution therein itself.
i think it is doable but may not necessarily be simple to cover it under the name "shell trick" -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
