<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 15:47, Steven W. Orr <<a href="mailto:steveo@syslang.net">steveo@syslang.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 11/28/09 02:43, quoth Donald Russell: <div class="im">> I am trying to use the expect program to automate an sftp process.... > > The expect file begins with > > spawn sftp -oProxyCommand='....' user@host > expect "password:" > send "sesame\n" > expect "sftp> " </div>Try this: send "sesame\r" </blockquote></div> I'll try that, but I'm not hopeful. The command that is spawned fails... I get the "usage" as if all that was spawned was "sftp" and not the entire command. So it doesn't even get to the "expect password" part, regardless of whether I'm using \n or \r in the "send". And I gather there is no such character on the "spawn" line... the command is just taken to be the literal characters up to the end-of-line. Do I need to escape anything? As I mentioned, if I cut/past the command into a shell.. it works fine... it's just got being spawned properly by expect. (Or I'm doing something wrong :-( )