I connect to remote server with ssh with my python codes. I connect and get results. But results are coming with rn My codes are below :
#To connect remote server and run networkmon.py and get results
from pexpect import pxssh
import getpass
try:
s = pxssh.pxssh()
hostname = "10.89.71.39"
username = "manoadmin"
password = "********" #generic pass added
s.login(hostname, username, password)
s.sendline('cat manobackup_scripts/networkmon.py')
s.prompt()
print(s.before)
s.logout()
except pxssh.ExceptionPxssh as e:
print("pxssh login hata.")
The output i get is like;
import osrnimport socketrnrnimport timernrnstart_time = time.time()rnrn
But i want the out put to be printed out as below
import os import socket
import time
start_time = time.time()
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Answer
By default data in s.before is of bytes, not str. You can decode when printing:
print(s.before.decode() )
You can ask it to automatically convert the data to str by specifying an encoding:
s = pxssh.pxssh(encoding='utf8') ... print(s.before)