[Tutor] Capture telnet output to a file?

[dpotter at nc.rr.com]

I was not aware of script.  Thanks!

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.net>
Date: Monday, October 16, 2006 1:55 pm
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Capture telnet output to a file?
To: tutor at python.org

> 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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