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Hi,

I ran into a problem with expect module response the same value to all prompt.

I have a task that execute a command and expecting four prompt the expect module response to the first prompt correctly but response to the 2nd & 3rd prompt with the same value from the 1st prompt.

  • expect:
    command: /path/to/the/script.sh #The script will return 4 response
    responses:
    ‘.?:$': ‘12345’
    '.    ?:$’: ‘12345’
    ‘.?:$': ‘xena-warrior’
    '.    ?:$’: ‘12345’

echo: yes

All prompts have end of line ‘:’

From the output I can see the response ‘12345’ in the third prompt and not ‘xena-warrior’.

Any help would greatly appreciated,

David.

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All of your “questions” are the same. Because you are defining a hash/dict for responses, by providing the same key you are over writing the values.

If you need to respond multiple times to a question with different answers, this is not currently possible with the released version of the expect module but will be included in the next release.

In the currently released version of this module, you should either define unique questions, or assume that the module will respond with the same answer to your single question.

The pattern of “.*?:$” effectively matches anything. You should be more specific, or take a look at the updated module with the functionality added in https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/1522