How to use two different libraries?

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hello,

I need to use two different libraries like /usr/local/bin/expect and /usr/bin/ksh at the same script. Is it possible?

2

Yes, what I do is use a ksh script as normal (#!/bin/ksh at the top) and when I want to use expect I put the expect code in a separate scriptname.exp file (with #!/usr/local/bin/expect -f at the top, changing the location to suit) and call scriptname.exp from within the ksh script. So not quite using ksh(1) and expect(1) in the same script but I hope this is what you were trying to acheive?

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Thanks a lot can i do the opposite. I mean can i first execute expect script then call ksh script. Actually i could not find a way that execute ksh script or another program in expect script.

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Thanks a lot found the way.

send "./filename\r"

it works :slight_smile:

4

Have you tried:

spawn ./filename

?

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yeah, i have tried that. it works also.

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but there is a problem with spawn. whether the previous command or job is done or not , spawn command starts working. Not wait for previous command is finished