[TriLUG] Perl. Help. Needed.

[William Sutton]

What happens if you

print CONFIG $some_line;
print $some_line;

That should accomplish the goal of printing the line to the CONFIG file 
-and- printing it to the screen.  Unless, of course, the expect code is 
somehow capturing STDOUT.  I never write expect code...

William Sutton

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Greg Brown wrote:

> William:
>
> Thanks for the prompt reply.  Originally I was using 'CONFIG' as a handle
> but I was having tremendous difficulty simply printing the results of my
> 'show run' anywhere except (no pun) STDOUT.. which is why I started to mess
> around with redirecting STDOUT.
>
> I know I'm missing something very basic (no pun again) but darn it, I can't
> see it in here.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Greg
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:25 PM, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
>
>> Can I suggest that, instead of opening STDOUT and printing to that, that
>> you open a different file handle, say, CONFIG, and write the lines you want
>> to see there, and print them as well if you want to see them on your screen?
>>  Also, if you're not doing it, I suggest using
>>
>> $|=1;
>>
>> to turn on autoflush.
>>
>>
>> William Sutton
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Greg Brown wrote:
>>
>>  I'm throwing my hands up in disgust.
>>>
>>> My Perl/Expect.pm script prints to STDOUT just like it should.
>>>
>>> I would like to redirect ONE PART OF THIS SCRIPT to a file from STDOUT
>>>
>>> Code snippet:
>>>
>>>       $ssh->expect(30,'(tcl)') || die "Never got the tcl prompt: $!\n";
>>>
>>>       open(STDOUT, ">./configs/$fileName") || die "can't write to
>>> ./configs/$fileName: $!\n";
>>>
>>>       print STDOUT "screw this script!!!!!  I"M SICK OF IT!\n";
>>>
>>>       # now send the 'show run' comamnd
>>>       print $ssh "exec \"show run\"\r";
>>>
>>>       print STDOUT "AGAIN!  screw this script!!!!!  I"M SICK OF IT!\n";
>>>
>>>       close (STDOUT);
>>>
>>> Now when I run the script my outfile file contains "screw this script!!!!!
>>> I"M SICK OF IT!"  and the "AGAIN" line - and ONLY those lines.. not the
>>> result of the command run by the expect module.  To make matters more
>>> screwy
>>> the results of 'show run' don't appear on the screen, i.e. they aren't
>>> going
>>> to STDOUT.  But they aren't going to the redirected file either.
>>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>> I don't want to log the output of the entire script, just this one
>>> command.
>>> This should work.  If the results of my 'show run' aren't there when I
>>> redirect STDOUT to a file and they are there when I don't where the hell
>>> does it GO?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
>>>
>>> Beer please.
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