Problems with expect and scp

[Esa Heikkinen]

Hi

I have problems with expect (5.43) and scp (Cygwin) in Windows NT.
With ssh (Cygwin) there are no problems and it works very well.

If i give my scp-command (scp lo...@1.1.1.1:/home/login/log/* .) "by hand"
(in Cygwin), it works very well.
(login and IP-address has been changed.)

My script:
spawn scp lo...@1.1.1.1:/home/login/log/* .
expect "password:"
send "password\r"

Following error message was generated:
"write(spawn_id=1]: broken pipe"

Why ssh works with expect, but scp does not ?

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Esa

[Bezoar]

On Jun 13, 3:23 am, "Esa Heikkinen" <esa.heikki...@insta.fi> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have problems with expect (5.43) and scp (Cygwin) in Windows NT.
> With ssh (Cygwin) there are no problems and it works very well.
>

> If i give my scp-command (scp l...@1.1.1.1:/home/login/log/* .) "by hand"

> (in Cygwin), it works very well.
> (login and IP-address has been changed.)
>
> My script:

> spawn scp l...@1.1.1.1:/home/login/* .

> expect "password:"
> send "password\r"
>
> Following error message was generated:
> "write(spawn_id=1]: broken pipe"
>
> Why ssh works with expect, but scp does not ?
>
> ---
> Esa

I know on my system that the shell will expand the * to a filename so
I have to get
the files like so
scp chuck@chimpy:/home/chuck/"*" .
this will prevent the scp from expanding the * to a file and screwing
up the command
Now when you do this in expect , tcl does not do shell expansion so
you are trying to
transfer a file named * not all files in the directory. Since it
cannot find file * it dies
you need to do this:

spawn scp l...@1.1.1.1:/home/login/log/\"\*\" .

Carl

[esa.he...@insta.fi]

On 21 kesä, 23:16, Bezoar <cwjo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 13, 3:23 am, "Esa Heikkinen" <esa.heikki...@insta.fi> wrote:
>
>

> spawnscpl...@1.1.1.1:/home/login/log/\"\*\" .
>
> Carl-

Hi

This does not work :(

Even if give command "spawn C:\\cygwin\\bin\\scp lo...@1.1.1.1:/home/
login/log/file.txt" this does not work.

Same error is occured.

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Esa