[SGVLUG] expect is very neat

[Robert Leyva]

I wanted to create a script that would do a cvs update without me having
to input the password.

I found "expect", and it is really nice!

since I am a debian person, I only had to do: sudo aptitude install expect

For my need, I am fetching from a CVS repository that is read-only and
doesn't require a password, that is why the send just gives a newline
character.

Here is my autoFetchFromCVS.sh

robert at pip ~/projects/clamav cat ./autoFetchFromCVS.sh
#!/usr/bin/expect -f

spawn ./fetchFromCVS.sh
expect "assword"
send "\n"
expect eof

robert at pip ~/projects/clamav



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Robert Leyva
mrflash818 at geophile.net