Can't call expect from a Cygwin shell script.

Hi, I am trying to use Cygwin to launch expect from a simple shell script. In my case I am launching the shell script from a JSP, and the shell script gets called properly, however I can do everything from the shell script but call expect. For example touch ls, pwd, cd, echo all work, but expec

RE: Can't call expect from a Cygwin shell script.

- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Bopp Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 8:49 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't call expect from a Cygwin shell script. Damo, David wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to use Cygwin to launch expect

RE: Can't call expect from a Cygwin shell script.

Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Bopp Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 9:08 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't call expect from a Cygwin shell script. Damo, David wrote: > No errors. :( Just does not run from the shell scr

RE: Can't call expect from a Cygwin shell script.

I reinstalled it and it works. It seems the driver was hanging before. Interesting how it worked expect from the JSP. David -Original Message- From: Damo, David Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 9:13 AM To: 'Jeremy Bopp'; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Can't call expec

Can't set variables in a while loop that is passed to the rest of the script.

Hi, I had a script that worked on UNIX, but on Cygwin it does not work. When I set a variable in a while loop I can't use it after the loop. However, this worked in UNIX. Any ideas why? All variables set after the done command are blank, but can be seen in the while loop. propfile=${SCRIPT_HOM

RE: Can't set variables in a while loop that is passed to the rest of the script.

-- $nvpair if [ ! "$1" = "" ]; then eval "$1"=\"$2\" fi done -Original Message- From: Damo, David Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:40 PM To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com' Subject: Can't set variables in a while loop tha

Issues with terminal freezing after scp in expect script.

Hi, I have interesting problem. I have bash script that calls an expect script that works fine and does an scp. However after the scp the terminal freezes. It is stuck on the bash prompt, however the prompt is not the original prompt. After I do ctrl C it continues to process. I tried to do

RE: Issues with terminal freezing after scp in expect script.

sword:" { send "$unixpass\r"; } Needs to be: "Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?" {exp_send "yes\r"} "*assword:" { send "$unixpass\r"; break } If hung on password so I had to restart my termin