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I am writing a script that uses Expect and I try to spawn a connection to a remote host using plink. Plink is an SSH connection tool that allows for command line interaction. I am running this on a Windows PC running Win XP. The version of Active State Tcl version is 8.5.6.0. The error I get this:

expect: spawn id exp2 not open
while executing

Should I be using spawn? Is there another way to launch plink and still interact with it?

Here is basic part of the script:

#!/bin/sh
# The next line is executed by /bin/sh, but not tcl \
#exec wish "$0" ${1+"$@"}
exec tclsh85

package require Expect

wm withdraw .
console show

set currDir [pwd]
set outputFile "$currDir/log_Out.txt"

set remoteIP "10.10.102.41"
set userID admin
set userPW admin

set timeout 20
after 50 {set newMsg 1}
vwait newMsg

set prompt {CPE41:}

log_file $outputFile

spawn plink $remoteIP
set plink_id $spawn_id
after 1000
expect {
-nocase -re "(login as:)" {exp_send "$userID\r"}
}
.
.
.

Thanks for the help.

Tony