having trouble getting a script to work

[geoid]

Hi,


I'm having trouble getting a script to work. If I enter the following on the command line: (Note: I've had to replace the "at" character to get this post onto the forum).

/Applications/sshfs/bin/mount_sshfs user*at*192.168.0.1: /Users/me/sshfs/harddisk

... and then enter my password manually, it works fine and the sshfs volume mounts to my desktop. I then tried to write a script so I don't need to type my password in:

#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn /Applications/sshfs/bin/mount_sshfs user*at*192.168.0.1: /Users/me/sshfs/harddisk
expect "*?assword:"
send "1234\r"
expect eof
exit 0

I've saved this to a file called go.sh. If I launch ./go.sh from the same command prompt as above, it executes without causing any errors, but the volume doesn't mount.

Any clues?

[GMorris]

I'm no expert, but I don't know what the "spawn" command is. I don't seem to be able to find it here. Have you tried the script without it?

[drl]

Hi, GMorris.

I'm no expert, but I don't know what the "spawn" command is. I don't seem to be able to find it here. Have you tried the script without it?

This appears to be an expect script, not a shell script ... cheers, drl

       spawn [args] program [args]
             creates a new process running program args.  Its stdin, stdout
             and stderr are connected to Expect, so that they may be read and
             written by other Expect commands.  The connection is broken by
             close or if the process itself closes any of the file
             identifiers.

-- excerpt from man expect, q.v.

[GMorris]

Ahh, no wonder I didn't catch that!

Hi, GMorris.

This appears to be an expect script, not a shell script ... cheers, drl

       spawn [args] program [args]
             creates a new process running program args.  Its stdin, stdout
             and stderr are connected to Expect, so that they may be read and
             written by other Expect commands.  The connection is broken by
             close or if the process itself closes any of the file
             identifiers.

-- excerpt from man expect, q.v.

[geoid]

Found an easier way:

echo password | sshfs etc. -o password_stdin

Hope this helps someone!