[Tutor] Capture telnet output to a file?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006, dpotter at nc.rr.com wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am trying to capture telnet output to a file.  For example I want to
>telnet into a router and run the command ?show arp? and be able to
>capture all the arp information that normally would show up on the
>screen to a file on my system.    I am using python and pexpect to
>backup my router configurations on a daily basis, but for this the
>router has the option to send the configuration via tftp to a server,
>there is no option to send normal screen data to a file.  Any ideas?

One could use the ``script'' program in *NIX systems which
captures your entire session.

I haven't used pexpect with python yet, but the perl expect
module can also be used to capture things like this, and I would
expect that one could do this with pexpect as well.

Bill
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