Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 05:33:51 -0600 From: Jay Moore <jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: running interactive program from shell script Message-ID: <200501300533.51350.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com>
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I need a shell script that initiates a telnet session to another host. I have
come up with the following, but unfortunately it terminates when the script
is finished. What I wanted was for the telnet session to remain "alive" and
interactive until manually terminated.
Is there a way to accomplish this in a shell script?
I've been told that I'll have to use "expect" or similar to accomplish this,
but it seems to me that I should be able to do this using just Bourne shell
commands.
#! /bin/sh
(sleep 3;
echo "password";
sleep 3;
echo "ls -la";
sleep 3;
) | telnet -l user 192.168.0.2
Thanks,
Jay
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