[cisco-voip] Non-interactive CLI commands?

[David Sullivan]

cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net wrote:
> jean-francois.guay at bell.ca wrote:
>> Are you using FTP to copy of HTTP?
>> 
>> With FTP, you would need to start by configuring the ftp username and
>> password in the general config, then issue:
>> 
>> # copy ftp://source filename url> flash:<destination filename>
>> *enter* And at the end of your script send an extra "enter/line
>> feed" that will actually confirm your command to the router.
> 
> Well, I'm using HTTP so that I don't need to provide login
> credentials when I pull the IOS to the router.
> 
> The sticking point is that I want to make this script _very_ simple.
> Using clogin from RANCID I can script non-interactive
> commands quite easily, but to get the script to send extra CR
> is the issue, and I'd prefer not to do that.

Sending CR isn't tricky, just add \n to the end of the line and that'll
send a CR after your command. I've some upgrade scripts for older
switches where I have to use this for deleting old content since they
don't support recursive deletes and prompt.

But this there is a better way:

http://ioshints.blogspot.com/2006/11/reduce-noise-generated-by-cisco-ios
.html

Note the caveat though, you may not want it saved back to the
startup-config

David Sullivan
IT Services Systems Team
Barnet College
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