Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:20:47 -0600 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Setting Variables in expect Scripts From Shell Output Message-ID: <200802251620.m1PGKl4w069144@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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While running an expect script, is it possible to set an expect script variable to the string kept in a shell variable? I can generate the shell variable just fine but when I try to export it to the expect script for later use with something like: set LOGFILENAME [exec echo \$TMPFILE] something happens without error, but a later attempt to see the contents of it such as send_user "$LOGFILENAME\n" proves that it never got set. It just echoes the literal string LOGFILENAME. Thanks.
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