#!/usr/bin/perl # This example demonstrates how to spawn an ftp process, have it #log in to a host, and grab a file off the host. This should give you a #general idea of how to spawn processes and talk to them. # The first thing I do when attempting to automate a process is do it #by hand, so you know what interaction with the process should look like. # I highly recommend you read the information on debugging in chapter #3 before actually trying this yourself. # # Usage: script ftphost file1 [file2 file3.. ] use Expect; # Optional debugging, explained later. # $Expect::Debug=1 # $Expect::Exp_Internal=1; # $Expect::Log_Stdout=0; # On by default. $host = shift @ARGV; # Let the host be the first argument we are given. @files = @ARGV; # Let the names of the files be the remaining arguments. # Make sure we're trying to get something. unless ($host ne '' && @files > 0) { print STDERR <spawn("ftp $hostname")) || die "Couldn't spawn ftp, $!"; # Look for a username prompt. On my box this looks like: # "Name (ftp.cdrom.com:tex): " # So, let's see what our username is. $username = $ENV{'USER'}; # Time out if we don't get it within 30 seconds. unless ($ftp->expect(30,"Name ($hostname:$username): ")) { die "Never got username prompt on $hostname, ".$ftp->exp_error()."\n"; } # Ok, so we have the username prompt. Let's send it "anonymous". # Note how I follow with a \r. print $ftp "anonymous\r"; # And we want a password prompt now. # On my box this looks like: # 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. # Password: # Where there are no spaces after the password. This is important to note # since, if there were a space, we might try sending a password before # the ftp server finished giving us a prompt or if we were looking for a space # and there wasn't one we might end up not matching. # To save time I cut and pasted most of the line above where we grabbed the # username prompt. unless ($ftp->expect(30,"Password:")) { die "Never got password prompt on $hostname, ".$ftp->exp_error()."\n"; } # Grabbing our actual domain would be the better thing to do here but is # outside the scope of this example. print $ftp "$username\@mycompany.com\r"; # Now we look for a prompt, having (we hope) successfully logged in. unless ($ftp->expect(30,"ftp> ")) { die "Never got ftp prompt after sending username, ".$ftp->exp_error()."\n"; } # Ok. We have a prompt on the foreign machine, so let's get the files. # Notice that at the end of each loop we are at an ftp> prompt. foreach $file (@files) { print $ftp "get $file\r"; unless ($ftp->expect(30,"ftp> ")) { die "Never got ftp prompt after attempting to get $file, ".$ftp->exp_error()."\n"; } } # We should have all the files. If this is the end of the script we can # quit without bothering to close the process. Perl will take care of it # for us. Later examples will demonstrate the differences between # close(), soft_close(), and hard_close().