Using expect to login to amazon server with .PEM file - ssh

Question

I need to do the following:
Log into my amazon server
Change to a specific directory and run a script
The script executes an svn up, I need to be able to pass my username and password to this script.
I've read I might be able to do this with expect? Can I do the login via a shell script and then invoke expect to run the custom script?
Basically, I'm just looking for a good way to do this and would appreciate a pointer in the right direction.

Answer 1

You can use ssh to pass a shell commands to be run on remote Instance.
For example, here's how I check logs on multiple Servers:
#!/bin/bash
nas_servers=(
"ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xxx.ap-xxxx.compute.amazonaws.com"
"ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xxx.ap-xxxx.compute.amazonaws.com"
"ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xxx.ap-xxxx.compute.amazonaws.com"
"ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xxx.ap-xxxx.compute.amazonaws.com"
)
for s in "${nas_servers[#]}"
do
echo "Cheking $s:"
ret=$(ssh -i ~/pem/Key.pem "user#$s" bash << 'EOF'
files=/var/log/syslog*
for f in $files
do
if [[ ${f##*.} = 'gz' ]]; then
cmd=zcat
else
cmd=cat
fi
$cmd $f | egrep -wi 'error|warn|crit|fail'
done
EOF
)
if [[ -z $ret ]]; then
echo "No errors found."
else
echo "$ret"
fi
done