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copied!<p>I have a script(<strong>dobrt</strong>) which upon executing asks for a password.How can i write a script which executes <strong>dobrt</strong> and automatically supplies the <strong>password</strong> it asks for.</p> <p>when i execute <code>./dobrt -p file.txt</code> , the system asks for a password. I want the password to be sent in automatically by the script. Here is the output</p> <pre><code>$ ./dobrt -p file.txt Found 194 tests to execute ------------ 2010 February 11 11:27:33 ------------ Password: *************** </code></pre> <p>I tried using shell and expecxt scripts for this. here is what i did.</p> <p>I have 2 scripts. I call the second script(run_dobrt.exp) from the first one(run_dobrt.sh).</p> <p><strong>Script 1 : run_dobrt.sh</strong></p> <pre><code>#!/bin/ksh TESTCASE_HOME="/home/abhijeet/code/testcases"; TESTCASE_LIST="file.txt"; PASSWORD="*****"; echo "Running Expect Script" `./run_dobrt.exp $TESTCASE_HOME $TESTCASE_LIST $PASSWORD` </code></pre> <p><strong>Script 2: run_dobrt.exp</strong></p> <pre><code>#!/usr/local/bin/expect -f set TESTCASE_HOME [lindex $argv 0]; set TESTCASE_LIST [lindex $argv 1]; set PASSWORD [lindex $argv 3]; set timeout 200 spawn $TESTCASE_HOME/dobrt -p $TESTCASE_HOME/$TESTCASE_LIST expect "*?assword:*" {send -- "$PASSWORD\r";} expect eof </code></pre> <p>Now when i run run_dobrt.sh i get the following error <strong>run_dobrt.sh[20]: spawn: not found</strong> How to get rid of this error and get this task done? Please help.</p>

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