I'm not up on expect, but I would assume that since you can use sh then you
should ber able to use expect.
Generally speaking in sh you can do the following:
#!/bin/sh
MYSQLCMD="/usr/local/bin./mysql"
USER="me'
HOST="some.host.com"
PASSWD="whatever"
QUERY="SELECT userId FROM thisTable WHERE id="1"
RESULT='${MYSQLCMD} -h ${HOST}-u ${USERID} -p${PASSWD} -e "${QUERY}" -s
thisDB'
echo ${RESULT}
Let me know if you can get expect to work in sh's place...
Cheers,
m!
Chris Aitken wrote:
> At 11:36 PM 23/09/2001, Neil Zanella wrote:
>
> >It is possible and not very hard at all.
> >But why would you need expect? Why not
> >just use a shell script?
>
> Because the task I need the script to do is best done using Expect (its
> interfacing with a serial port doing things with some data pulled out of a
> database).
>
> A psuedo flow of what it does is -
>
> * Fire off the expect script
> * The expect script grabs fields of data from mysql
> * The expect script uses that data and interfaces with a device hanging off
> a serial port.
> * The script ends with the result based on whether the interaction with the
> serial device succeeds or not.
>
> Thats why Im wanting to use expect... and thats why I am trying to find a
> way to get mysql data into an expect script.
>
> Chris
>
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