[ale] automating a download

[ChangingLINKS.com]

You are right. Expect DOES seem to be the  solution, however, after reading 
the entire man page, and visiting the web site - I still don't know how to 
use it. I do get an expect prompt when I type in "expect" and the latest 
version comes with RedHat 7.2.
Unfortunately, I am not a programmer. Can anyone help me draft a *very* short 
expect script that will simply do a mySQL dump and download the dump?
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Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
Drew Brown
http://www.ChangingLINKS.com

On Tuesday 30 July 2002 12:03, you wrote:
> Expect (and the utility autoexpect that come with it) should solve your
> automation problem.  Expect is a language designed exactly for what you
> are trying to do, automate tasks.
>
> -- Mike
>
> On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 18:19, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> > Ok. Now that I have the passphrase problem out of the way, I am still
> > lost as to how to automate commands from my local machine to tar and
> > download a file that is on my remote server.
> > I tried putting all of the commands in a file, naming it .sh and running
> > it. That worked, except once the .shell script logins into the server, it
> > stops processing the commands because the shell script is not local.
> > I thought about putting a script on my server BUT I will have the same
> > problem - I will still have to login and call the script from my local
> > box. I have looked up "automating shell commands" but the information
> > that I have found is way off. Can someone point me to a URL that explains
> > how to login to a remote machine and make it do my bidding using only a
> > .sh script? --
> > Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
> > Drew Brown
> > http://www.ChangingLINKS.com
> >
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