[Linux-users] any 'expect' gurus?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday 16 August 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > Since you start a new shell... ? maybe the shell doesn't terminate?
>
> That's the problem, the new shell never terminates from the expect script.

Can't send expect and Exit to exit the shell?    Or perhaps once you have 
expect start a new shell...  expect loses control?

There's some discussion under 'disconnect' about forked processes.....



send_user "password?\ "
                 expect_user -re "(.*)\n"
                 for {} 1 {} {
                     if {[fork]!=0} {sleep 3600;continue}
                     disconnect
                     spawn priv_prog
                     expect Password:
                     send "$expect_out(1,string)\r"
                     . . .
                     exit
                 }


That's just part of the example but it looks like it starts a program in 
disconnect and then exits out.


I'm googling for more.