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  • bollweevil
    replied to Making a bash script only prompt for password once?
    in Linux
    How to use "expect&qu ot; in a bash shell script?

    Hello Everyone,

    I wish I could edit my earlier post, but I can't. The earlier post asks how to make a bash script fill in the password when prompted. I found something that does exactly that: expect.

    Expect successfully fills in the password, BUT it breaks something else. Here is the new and improved code, in sync.sh:
    Code:
    #!/bin/bash
    ...
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    Last edited by Nepomuk; Apr 19 '09, 09:10 AM. Reason: Please use [code] tags

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    • bollweevil
      started a topic Making a bash script only prompt for password once?
      in Linux

      Making a bash script only prompt for password once?

      Hello Everyone,

      I do Django web development on my Mac at home, and then I rsync the files with the Ubuntu web server. I want to write one single bash shell script that rsyncs the files and restarts Apache on the server.

      Here is the script I have so far, sync.sh:

      #!/bin/bash
      echo -n Password:
      read -s PW
      rsync --compress --times --perms --links --recursive --delete --include-from=incls.txt...
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