No output in output file even though pexpect scrift runs succesfully

Question

I am trying to add the results of ls/home into mylogfile.txt through ssh. If I run the script there is no error but there is no output in mylogfile.txt.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import pexpect
import sys

child=pexpect.spawn('ssh anony@192.168.42.2')
fout=file('mylogfile.txt','w')
child.logfile=fout

child.expect("password:")
child.sendline("xxxxx")
child.expect('$')
child.sendline('ls /home')

anony:pythontest/ $ cat mylogfile.txt                                                                                    
anony@192.168.42.2's password: xxxxxxx 
ls /home

Why's there only tow commands in mylogfile.txt?

Answer 1

You've got to wait til the ls command finishes execution, same as when you run it on the terminal. Here's an example for you(I'm using ssh that's why there's no password prompt):

[STEP 106] # cat foo.py
import pexpect

shell_prompt = 'bash-[.0-9]+[$#] '

ssh = pexpect.spawn('ssh -t 127.0.0.1 bash --noprofile --norc')
ofile = file('file.out', 'w')
ssh.logfile_read = ofile

ssh.expect(shell_prompt)

ssh.sendline('echo hello world')
ssh.expect(shell_prompt)

ssh.sendline('exit')
ssh.expect(pexpect.EOF)
[STEP 107] # python foo.py
[STEP 108] # cat file.out
bash-4.3# echo hello world
hello world
bash-4.3# exit
exit
Connection to 127.0.0.1 closed.
[STEP 109] #