Oops! Good call.
Thank you. You pointed out my mistake.
- Saqib
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote:
> Saqib Ali <saqib.ali...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I want to write a pexpect script that simply cd's into a directory ("~/
> > install") and then runs a command from there. It should be so easy.
> > But even my cd command is failing. Can't figure out what the problem
> > is. The command line prompt is "[my machine name here] % "
> >
> > Here is the code fragment:
> >
> > print "Spawning Expect"
> > p = pexpect.spawn ('/bin/tcsh',)
> >
>
> If you execute /bin/tcsh by hand, do you get a "%" prompt?
>
> Nick
>
> > print "Sending cd command"
> > i = p.expect([pexpect.TIMEOUT, "%",])
> > assert i != 0, "Time-Out.... exiting"
> > p.sendline("cd ~/install")
> >
> > Here is the output:
> >
> > Spawning Expect
> > Sending cd command
> > Time-Out.... exiting
> >
> >
> > How could I be screwing something so simple up??
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