Re: [ILUG] ftp script

From: Padraig Brady (padraig.brady at domain corvil.com)
Date: Thu 26 Sep 2002 - 13:17:03 IST


Smith, Graham - Computing Technician wrote:
> Does it have to use perl?
>
> I'd use expect for that sort of operation.

Expect is overkill when you know exactly
what the request/reponse will be. It is
the correct choice if you need to make
decisions on what's returned. It should
really be called unexpected :-)

There was a Q on "push" mirroring on ILUG on 4th Sept 2002
Here's my answer in the middle of it:
http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2002-September/049487.html

Padraig.



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.6 : Thu 06 Feb 2003 - 13:19:05 GMT