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Posted: **Fri Sep 14, 2012 7:27 am**

Hi all, I'm new to this openwrt world and I'm trying to improve my learnings about it a little further, I hope you can help me.

The matter is this:

I have the main script which calls the second script with the following command:

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for ROUTER in {1..10}
do
xterm -iconic -e $path/runscript.sh $ROUTER &
done

and the runscript.sh code is:

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#!/bin/bash
#!/usr/bin/expect -f

set arg1 [lindex $argv 0]
spawn ssh root@192.168.$arg1.1 ; 
expect password ; 
send "12345\n" ; 
expect '~#' ; 
send "./script3.sh\n" ; 
interact

And the result is always:

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- bash: xterm: command not found
- bash: spaw: command not found
- bash: expect: command not found
- bash: send: command not found
- bash: interact: command not found

I've already installed the bash package along with other libs but the problem is always the same, do you have any clue?

Thanks

Posted: **Fri Sep 14, 2012 9:33 pm**

The small size of the routers on which OpenWRT runs require that it uses smaller, more lightweight command line utilities that what are typically found on larger linux distributions. bash, xterm and expect are not installed by default. The default shell used by OpenWRT is called ash and has a lot of bash-like syntax, but it isn't bash.

You're going to need to optimize your script(s) for the utilities OpenWRT does use. Most of these are provided by the Busybox suite of utilities. Take a look at the Busybox documentation for more details on what is available.

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