[CentOS] How to schedule for a repeated task?

[John R Pierce]

hadi motamedi wrote:
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>     if you need to automate an interactive command you can use expect
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> Thank you for your reply. I am trying like the followings:
> #expect
> >set name 172.16.17.160
> >set user id
> >set password pwd
> >set cmd1 "cd /tmp"
> >set cmd2 "cp log.cap /export/home"
> >set cmd3 "logout"
> >spawn telnet $name
> >expect "login:"
> >send "$user"
> >expect "Password:"
> >send "$password"
> >send "$cmd1"
> >send "$cmd2"
> >send "$cmd3"
> >exit

that cp command is executed on the remote system, so it will copy your 
log.cap file to /export/home on the remote system.   is that what you 
want to do?