[TriLUG] expect question

[jonc at nc.rr.com]

Python!

#! /usr/bin/env python
#
import telnetlib
#
#
HOST = myrouter.network.com
LOGIN = "mypassword"
ENABLE = "myenablepw"
#
# tn = telnetlib.Telnet(HOST)
try:
   tn = telnetlib.Telnet(HOST)
except Exception,e:
   print " Problem accessing " + HOST + " (" + i[0] + "): Exception #" + str(e[0]) + " - " + e[1]
   SKIP = 1
if ( SKIP == 0 ):
   tn.read_until("Password:",10)
   tn.write(LOGIN + "\n")
   # Get rid of those nasty "-- more --" lines when looking at text
   tn.write("terminal length 0 \n")
   tn.write("enable \n")
   tn.read_until("Password:",5)
   tn.write(ENABLE + "\n")
   tn.write("show config \n")
   tn.write("exit\n")
   tn.write("exit\n")
   # print tn.read_all()
   h = open("myrouterconf.txt", "w")
   h.write(tn.read_all())
   h.close()
   tn.close()
#
---- Robert Dale <robdale at gmail.com> wrote: 
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I've got a simple script.  So far it logs into a router and goes to
> enable mode.
>
> I'd like to issue the command 'show run' then capture that output and write
> it to a log file.  So far the expect script opens the log file but for the
> life of me I can't seem to capture the 'show run' output write that to the
> file.
>
> Can anyway share an example of how to do this?

#!/usr/bin/expect --

set log_file [open "foo.txt" "w"]

spawn w

expect eof {
puts $log_file $expect_out(buffer)
}


-- 
Robert Dale
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