can you run expect command in a bash shell script for loop [duplicate] - bash

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Goal: i have multiple linux based device on the network. i am trying to pass a password to my usernames login for multiple device. after i have logged in i want to extract information from the user. output that information to a log file on my machine. (typically a cat or tail of a log file) then i want to move on to the next device on the network. repeat until all on the network have been ran through.
My result:
35: xmgEXfinder.sh: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting "done")
here is the code i currently have:
#!/bin/bash
IP=$(sudo arp-scan --localnet --numeric --ignoredups --quiet | grep -i ac:3f:a4 | awk '{print$1}')
Dumpdir='/home/location/logs/'
for x in $IP
do
/usr/bin/expect<<EOF
spawn ssh -i /home/location/id_rsa root#172.17.26.$x
expect "Enter passphrase for key 'id_rsa':"
send "password\n"
sleep 3
log_file XMGcheck.log
expect "~"
send "cat /reg/nv/system/serial|sed \x22s/\x24/,/g\x22 ; tail -n 50 /usr/log/ams.log|grep -i xmg|wc -l \n"
expect eof
EOF
done

Answer 1

When using a here document (<<EOF), the matching string must start at the beginning of a line. You have:
for x in $IP
do
/usr/bin/expect<<EOF
spawn ssh -i /home/location/id_rsa root#172.17.26.$x
expect "Enter passphrase for key 'id_rsa':"
send "password\n"
sleep 3
log_file XMGcheck.log
expect "~"
send "cat /reg/nv/system/serial|sed \x22s/\x24/,/g\x22 ; tail -n 50 /usr/log/ams.log|grep -i xmg|wc -l \n"
expect eof
EOF
done
You need:
for x in $IP
do
/usr/bin/expect<<EOF
spawn ssh -i /home/location/id_rsa root#172.17.26.$x
expect "Enter passphrase for key 'id_rsa':"
send "password\n"
sleep 3
log_file XMGcheck.log
expect "~"
send "cat /reg/nv/system/serial|sed \x22s/\x24/,/g\x22 ; tail -n 50 /usr/log/ams.log|grep -i xmg|wc -l \n"
expect eof
EOF
done
Or you need to use the <<-EOF format and then use tabs instead of spaces for identing.
You can read more in the Here Documents section of the bash man page.