combine shell and expect script

Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 140

Thens <thens@nospamti.com> wrote:

Kenny McCormack · *nix forums Guru Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 657

In article <20050218183336.4b3377dd@asiclindt001>,
Thens <thens@NOSPAMti.com> wrote:

Thens · *nix forums beginner Joined: 21 Feb 2005 Posts: 3

Hello,

Iam writing an expect script to automate an interactive job. The script
could be run in both linux and solaris at my place and the location of
expect varies with the system.

I had

----- script ---------
#!/usr/local/bin/expect
< expect script here>

but this will not work on solaris, because the expect is at a different
location and ofcouse I could make it work by invoking it as

$ <path to expect> script

But, what I want to do is the script should automatically find the
location of expect and exec it with the expect interpreter. I have done this with perl and will need some help here.

Any pointers ?

Regards,
Thens.

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