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From: libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: telnet in a shell script
Keywords: telnet
Message-ID: <8026@muffin.cme.nist.gov>
Date: 14 Nov 90 04:34:10 GMT
References: <3886@male.EBay.Sun.COM>
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
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In article <3886@male.EBay.Sun.COM> briantr@sunnet.EBay.Sun.COM (Brian Tran) writes:
>I have a need to use the equivalence of the ".telnetrc" for use with
>"telnet" in a C-shell program. How can I implement this so that
>user doesn't not have to enter "username" and "password" when using
>this little program?

From your shell script, call an expect script like the following:

	spawn telnet male.ebay.sun.com
	expect "*login:*"
	send "brian\r"
	expect "*Password:"
	send "igiveup\r"
	interact


The "interact" will let you use the telnet as if you had logged in
yourself.  Or you can do more send/expect statements.