Hi, I have file trial.txt that contain several lines :

a111
a112
a113
....
axxx

I have a second file (expect file) coba.exp, i want to get those strings as parameter from the first file

so on my expect file can doing some looping :

#!/usr/bin/expect

#expect command

send "a111\r"
send "axxx\r"
send "a113\r"
.....
send "a114\r"

#end expect

what should i wrote on coba.exp

any direction would be greatly appreciated.

BEST REGARDS
ADRIAN

I'm assuming you want to call your expect script once per file entry. First, create a shell script that reads the trial.txt

# UNTESTED
while read myvar
do
  cobra.exp $myvar
done < trial.txt

In order for the expect file to read the parameter, do something like this:

set sendvar [lindex $argv 0 ]

send "$sendvar\r"

Second, if you know the actual number of variables passed to the expect script you could read each of the variables and then call the expect script like this:

cobra.exp $myvar1 $myvar2 $myvar3

Then change the expect script to something like this:

set sendvar0 [lindex $argv 0 ]
set sendvar1 [lindex $argv 1 ]
set sendvar2 [lindex $argv 2 ]

i create new shell script to read trial.txt called ian.sh
and i put command:

while read myvar
do
coba.exp $myvar
done < trial.txt

after im doing like ur advice i found some message

ian.sh: line 39: coba.exp: Permission denied

what happen and how to fixed it??

BEST REGARDS
ian caem

Since I can not see line 39 of ian.sh, it's not possible for me to tell for sure. It looks like you've set ian.sh to execute, but ian.sh doesn't have permission to execute coba.exp.

post the output of:

ls -l coba.exp
ls -l ian.sh

and I might be able to tell you.

Sounds to me as if bash is telling you that
coba.exp is not executable. You may need to
change the files permissions:

chmod +x (path to)coba.exp

I do not use expect here, so this may be
wrong ...

HTH,

Ernie Registered Linux User 247790

i have doing this

chmod 700 coba.exp and chmod 700 ian.sh

and everything works..thanx pals!?

BEST REGARDS
ian caem