Why chdir command doesn't work with client.get_transport() ?

[Steve Holden]

I try not to top-post in this group, but the strange formatting of the 
message makes this advisable, as I am sure many people won't even 
persist in reading down as far as the "content".

Can I make a wild-assed guess that you are a Lotus Notes user reading 
python-list? Please try and find a way of not barfing these awful 
headers out with your post (perhaps you could use a newsgroup reader and 
access the gmane servers?).

It really does make it difficult to focus on what you say when there are 
twenty-odd lines of badly-formatted heading information at the start of 
each message.

regards
  Steve

Matthew_WARREN at bnpparibas.com wrote:
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>> Thank you, Matt, for your valuable advice! I did try using ';' to issue
> three
>> commands at once and it works!
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>> However, I have more problems with issuing ClearCase commands, which is
> what
>> I am really doing.
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>> Under telnet, I could issue commands one by one, just as typing at the
>> command prompt. Now I tried to use ';' manually typing two commands at
> once
>> on my Solaris command line, such as
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>>      ct setview viewName; cd dir_in_clearcase
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>> (ct = cleartool) The second command will not be executed, since the
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>> prompt changes after the first command. --- I think that it was because
>> there was a long delay after the first command. (any way out?)
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> I'm not familiar with cleartool - could it be that the first command you
> are using is invoking an application that is not returning to the command
> line?, for example, if you were telnetted in and doing the same would you
> literally type
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> $>ct setview viewName
> $>cd /some/where
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> or does the session look more like
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> $>ct setview viewName
> _new_ct_prompt> exit
> $>cd /some/where
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> If that is the case, it mightbe possible to direct ct to get it's input
> from a file
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> ct setview viewName < exitfile; cd /some/where
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> and exitfile has the word 'exit' in it.
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> just an idea though. may not work.
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>> When I used exec_command() to do this in Python, even the first command
> was
>> not recognized (error: bad phone number. I used 'man ct' and found that
> ct
>> dials a phone number). Even if 'ct' was recognized, the second command
> would
>> not be executed. And it is useless to do it in the next exec_command()
>> function. (Without the first command, one can not cd into a directory in
>> ClearCase.)
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> I'm a bit confused here. - Do you have an application called 'ct' (from
> previous paragraph, it appears you do. But if you are issuing 'ct' via
> python and getting 'bad phone number'??)  Can you explain the bigger
> picture a bit more, and what ClearCase is?
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> Why do you say 'Even if ct was recognized, the second command would not be
> executed' - if ct was recognised and returns to the command line prompt I
> would fully expect the second command to execute.
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>> Do you think that paramiko can replace telnet in my application? Thanks.
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> I think it would be taking it a bit far if you are just trying to automate
> something unless you really have to run on a remote machine. Then either
> telnet or paramiko should work. You could also maybe look at using python
> to invoke rsh/rexec processes if telnet was suitable in the first place.
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> Matt
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