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#!/bin/bash

# more commands here

expect << EOD
spawn telnet localhost 9151
expect -exact "Trying 127.0.0.1...\r
Connected to localhost.\r
Escape character is '^]'.\r"
send -- "AUTHENTICATE $COOKIE\r"
expect -exact "250 OK\r"
send -- "SIGNAL NEWNYM\r"
expect -exact "250 OK\r"
send -- "GETINFO circuit-status\r"
expect "250 OK\r"
send -- "QUIT\r"
expect -exact "250 closing connection\r
Connection closed by foreign host.\r"
EOD

# more commands here

This is about Expect. The script above establishes a telnet connection to the tor client and after clearing the current circuits, it gets the new circuit status.

GETINFO circuit-status outputs something like

250+circuit-status=
7 BUILT $D313CCBD93E756A53CD667D0A1A97E82B7740067~melco,$DA24B9CD2AA8C02B9068A168C420DC302D969937=TorExit1488,$C00DE13988B4ABC93B43617C0FADAA8E1D4A0293=nabtor BUILD_FLAGS=NEED_CAPACITY PURPOSE=GENERAL TIME_CREATED=2014-02-09T13:11:29.264485
5 BUILT $9DD5F90D641D835C4FCA7153148B156E6FD49CEE=darwinfish,$B013CA64C82EDC616BB3EC5DBE35BB7344EDFC2A=sipsrelay,$A59E1E7C7EAEE083D756EE1FF6EC31CA3D8651D7=chaoscomputerclub19 BUILD_FLAGS=IS_INTERNAL,NEED_CAPACITY,NEED_UPTIME PURPOSE=GENERAL TIME_CREATED=2014-02-09T13:11:05.263323
4 BUILT $5B8CCA69DFD88B0281D5E67C7764CA6B5177F210=IchGebDirNeuland,$A587BBB611657B0743CD9E6E70B6497BE209FFD2=RelayW,$D313B081A3EFC5492BE95AFE39F715413DD35586=ToileLibre BUILD_FLAGS=IS_INTERNAL,NEED_CAPACITY,NEED_UPTIME PURPOSE=GENERAL TIME_CREATED=2014-02-09T13:11:04.263266
2 BUILT $9DD5F90D641D835C4FCA7153148B156E6FD49CEE=darwinfish,$F16658975D729B8C4100A6DC649C5EDCAD1687A8=afo8,$35F51DCE73B988CBAE06B06312B4D1271979FE3B=thoreau BUILD_FLAGS=NEED_CAPACITY PURPOSE=GENERAL TIME_CREATED=2014-02-09T13:11:02.272687
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250 OK

I checked the man page, Exploring Expect - A Tcl-based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Programs (O'Reilly) and SO but I cannot make expect_out(buffer) work with set, set env nor puts.

How can I put it in a variable for use in my bash script?

How can I parse a part of it (e.g. C00DE13988B4ABC93B43617C0FADAA8E1D4A0293 above) and put it in a variable for bash?

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You could build a wrapper in bash, redirect the output of expect to a file, parse the file and set variables. Or variations thereof.

mark5:~/test# cat test.xp
send "bla\n"
mark5:~/test# expect test.xp
bla
mark5:~/test# expect test.xp > test.out
mark5:~/test# cat test.out
bla
mark5:~/test# #now parse test.out
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And how do you redirect the output of expect to a file? That said, I want to do it from expect to bash. –  1.61803 Feb 9 at 23:04
    
See my edit... Why would you not be able to redirect? Create a shell script that runs expect test.xp > test.out and parse what's in test.out after that –  Marki Feb 9 at 23:12
    
Oh I thought you were referring to redirecting here document I posted above. Wrapping is cumbersome. I'd prefer to handle expect's output directly as the sources mentioned state, although I couldn't figure it out. –  1.61803 Feb 10 at 15:15
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