How to execute another script from sleep

[Alen]

Hi,

I want to execute an Expect script from sleep script. So, i am using
the "exec" function as following:
$handle = exec("expect try.exp arg1 arg2 arg3 arg4'");

It runs fine if there is no whitespace in any of the arg<n>.
I want to ask how to pass the argument which has some whitespaces in
between.

For ex - if arg4 is "aa bb cc", then how to pass it in exec function.

I am passing like:
$handle = exec("expect try.exp arg1 arg2 arg3 \"aa bb cc\"'");
but the expect script treats it as 6 parameters instead of 4.

Please tell me some way to pass this kind of parameter.


Thanks in advance,
Alen

[Raphael Mudge]

Hi Alen
There is a second form of exec that accepts an array where the command
and each argument is represented as an array element. This is
probably what you want as it allows you to use whitespace in each
argument.

http://sleep.dashnine.org/manual/exec.html

$handle = exec(@("expect", "try.exp", "arg1", "arg2", "arg3", "aa bb cc"));

-- Raphael

[Gaurav Sharma]

Hi Raphael,

I checked the second form of exec function. It's working well for me :-)

Thanks for your suggestion.


Warm Regards
- Alen

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