Hi

Looking for suggestions on writing a script that reads commands from a file, logs into remote server and runs the commands.

I am pretty new to scripting. Any samples/suggestions are greatly appreciated.

regards
Ramesh

Look into expect for executing commands after you establish a remote connection. Also, rsh might work for you.

What do you want to do exactelly ? pls provide more details on what you want to do.

If you want to use some commands for which you know the pattern of the output or you need some answer after sending the commands then 'Send and Expect' is a good choice for you.

Else if you are intersted in just connecting to the remote machine and executing some commands then you can use 'rsh' also.

Thanks all for your suggestions/inputs.

Basically what I doing is writing a script to execute MML commands that are available in a file.

What I need to do is
- connect to the remote server
- Read the command from file
- Submit command
- Get response/error and write into logfile
- Disconnect

It would be desirable to connect to the remote server and execute all the commands and then disconnect rather than open and close the connection for each command from the file.

thanks for your great help.

regards
Ramesh