Hi, I am doing some postgres stuff with expect right now (not pg_dump... yet).
The only differences I see with what I have (which works) are:
1) I use quotes on the expect line (and no colon):
expect "Password"
2) I finish up with an expect that match the last line I expect back. It seems to me I had to do this to get expect to not just up-and-quit after it had provided all the inputs. It doesn't matter if it really matches anything, except that I get an error message (I can ignore) if I put a bogus value a la:
expect "This won't show up"
3) Also, you may want to set a large timeout, large enough for the command to finish:
set timeout 30
HTH
John Guthrie
Does anyone have an example of an expect script that could work. For some reason either I am not understanding something about this or My script is just wrong but my pg_sump script does not work with expect.
I have all my databases password protected hence a need for doing this for backup.
Currently this is what I am doing
spawn /usr/bin/pg_dump -U myusername -b -c -F c -f /backup/databasename_sql databasename
expect Password:
send "the_password\r"
any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.
thanks in advance.
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