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I have a script like this:

export P4PORT=192.168.1.132:1666
passwd=`security find-generic-password -ws Exchange | /usr/bin/perl -pe "s/\n//g"`

/usr/bin/expect -c "spawn /Users/myname/bin/p4 login; expect \"Enter password:\"; send \"$passwd\r\"; interact"
res=`/Users/myname/bin/p4 login -s`

osascript <<EOF
    tell app "System Events" to display dialog "$res" buttons "OK" default button 1
EOF

which runs perfectly when run as a simple shell script.

When I run it inside Automator on Mac OS X, however, it fails to log in.

The bit that seems to fail is the expect one. If I substitute it with doing things inside terminal in applescript the script works fine. this however is quite an ugly solution - it pops up a terminal and does all the typing in there.

Is the issue really with expect? and can it be worked around?

Since this would have to be implemented as a service, it would be neat to keep it that way.

Thanks.

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Turns out the problem is similar to the one listed here:

You need to use 

expect eof
exit

instead of 

interact

It works, but I don't know why.

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