Need help in introducing a delay in an expect script

[ayyappakumar]

Hi all,

I wrote the following expect script:

#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn /tools/bin/hongkong.sh
expect "Enter your input>"
send "1"
send "\n"
expect "User:"
send "<user_name>"
send "\n"
expect "password:"
send "<password>"
send "\n"
expect "Enter your choice:"
send "1"
send "\n"
sleep 1
interact {
}

I got the following error while executing the script:

Enter your choice: invalid command name: "sleep"
while executing
"sleep 1"
(file "harlow" line 15)

Basically, I want to introduce a delay after sending the "1".
Is there a way I can introduce a delay the expect script?

Thanks,
Ayyappa

[GNU-Fan]

Try putting a spawn command in front of the sleep.

[ayyappakumar]

Could you please provide me the syntax for Spawn command?
I am new to this expect scripting.

[NeoIce]

its usually just 'sleep <number of seconds>'

[tulcod]

Could you please provide me the syntax for Spawn command?
I am new to this expect scripting.

expect sleep 1

[skal5]

instead of sleep, please use "set timeout n", where "n" is the number of seconds after which you want to timeout
Example: set timeout 5
this will wait till 5 secs and then timeout to proceed to the next set of actions

[skal5]

Example for spawn:

spawn bash
spawn ksh
spawn rlogin $server -l $userid