Invalid Command Name

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I have telnet to a machine and executed some commands in it.
pls see below :

#!/usr/bin/expect

spawn telnet 170.10.11.1 2100
  expect "login:"  
  send username\r
  expect "password:"
  send password\r
  expect "$"  
  send "touch filetest\r"
  expect "$"  
  send exit\r
  expect eof

But after this, I am executing some shell commands "echo". it throws

invalid command name "echo"
    while executing

Can anyone help me out in this case?

2

It's because expect doesn't understand shell commands, and you can't just mix an match them as you like within the same script.

3

By using expect in the shebang, you use expect as interpreter of your commands. It seems echo is no valid command for expect.

4

when you are using expect, echo is not a valid command. If you are going to use other commands not recognizable by expect, you might need to use 2 scripts one calling your expect script. I'm not an expert on expect but the workaround we had to go around this issue it to use 2-3 scripts.