Expect, Command, Pipes and Gzip
Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 1 down vote favorite I am trying to work with the expect command, everything works well until I try to pipe the results of a command into a Gzip file. Here is the snippet of the bash file: XYZ=$(expect -c " spawn python log-connector.py -s $strt -e $end -i 600 -a https://server:9000 -u someaccount -f ./conf/firewall-fields2.txt -q ./conf/query.txt -z | gzip >> /data/sources/results-$strt2-$end2.json.gz expect "Password:" send "$passr" interact ") echo "$XYZ" $start - variable (start date) $end - variable (end date) $strt2 - variable (start date with 00:00) $end2 - variable (end date with 23:59) $pass - Password entered by the user previously. If I remove | gzip >> /data/sources/results-$strt2-$end2.json.gz from the above it works as expected. When I add it I get the following error: send: spawn id exp7 not open while executing usage: API [-h] [-s START] [-e END] [-d DAY] [-i IN...