Use Expect in a Bash script to provide a password to an SSH command

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Mixing Bash and Expect is not a good way to achieve the desired effect. I’d try to use only Expect:

#!/usr/bin/expect
eval spawn ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -oCheckHostIP=no usr@$myhost.example.com

# Use the correct prompt
set prompt ":|#|\\\$"
interact -o -nobuffer -re $prompt return
send "my_password\r"
interact -o -nobuffer -re $prompt return
send "my_command1\r"
interact -o -nobuffer -re $prompt return
send "my_command2\r"
interact

Sample solution for bash could be:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/expect -c 'expect "\n" { eval spawn ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -oCheckHostIP=no usr@$myhost.example.com; interact }'

This will wait for Enter and then return to (for a moment) the interactive session.

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