hello, every body , i need a script for login to a router by taking USER and PASSWORD from the script itself(i.e automate login).It is possible or any other way.Your reply in this regards is highly appreciable.Once i heard of TCPF what is this?? any idea.

You should look at scripting this in expect as an interactive telnet session is beyond the scope of most shells. http://expect.nist.gov/

#!/bin/ksh read HOST?"Host Address:" read USER?"Login:" read PASS?"Password:" #!/bin/sh tpipe() { sleep 3;echo $USER sleep 1;echo $PASS } tpipe | telnet $HOST

can any one also help me" i want to change the last number in this ip 203.199.23.98 .The last number that is 98 to some other required number , i mean i want to replace 98 with other number using shell script.Plz tell me the syntax."