pexpect module

[Adrian Casey]

First of all, look up the manual for Cisco's 'show' command.  See if there
is a way to turn off the paging.  If not, try to fool cisco into thinking
you have a very large page size on your terminal (e.g. 10,000 lines).

If this is not possible, you can loop in your python script -:

while 1:
        i=child.expect('--More--',pexpect.TIMEOUT)
        if i==0:
                child.sendline(' ')
        else:
                break

Adrian.

Gianluca Trombetta wrote:

> hmmm, i'm not so stupid...:-).
> The command ls -l | more was an example...i'm not really need to run ls -l
> | more in an automate program.
> But I need to run some cisco commands like "show ip bgp summary", this
> command print a table and put a "More" by default, if the table is too big
> for a single terminal screen.
> So I need to remove this behavior because if I match the " --More-- " with
> expect module i can match only the first one "More", then this the program
> crash and receives a timeout.
> 
> Hi
> Gianluca
> 
> 
> 
> "Lee Harr" <missive at frontiernet.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
> news:P9Lpc.5055$xg3.4383 at news01.roc.ny...
>> On 2004-05-14, Gianluca Trombetta <gianluca.trombetta at tin.it> wrote:
>> > Someone know pexpect module?
>> > I've a problem working with it...
>> >
>> > I need to run some commands on remote hosts, like ls, df -k etc..All
> right.
>> > Although, when i launch a command that have a "more" inside, i don't
> know
>> > what i must expect!
>> > An example:
>> >
>> > if i want to run an "ls -l | more" on a remote host, it don't return me
> a
>> > prompt, but a "-------------More-------------"...thus i don't know how
> much
>> > this.
>> >
>>
>>
>> The only reason I can see for piping the command through more would
>> be if there were a person sitting there wanting to read the output
>> before going on to read the next page of output.  That seems counter
>> to the idea of using pexpect to automate the process. Do you
>> really need to pipe through more?
>>
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