Receive from an SSH Channel Until a Pattern Matches

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Ssh.ChannelReceiveUntilMatch method, which receives text until the accumulated text matches a pattern. The arguments are the channel number, the pattern, the charset, and whether matching is case-sensitive. Existing buffered text is checked before waiting for more network data.

Important: Set the ReadTimeoutMs property before calling this method. It defaults to 0, meaning no limit, so without it the call waits forever if the received data never contains a match.

#include <C_CkSshW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkSshW ssh;
    int sshPort;
    const wchar_t *password;
    int channelNum;
    BOOL caseSensitive;
    const wchar_t *output;

    success = FALSE;

    //  Demonstrates the Ssh.ChannelReceiveUntilMatch method, which receives text until the
    //  accumulated text matches a pattern.  The 1st argument is the channel number, the 2nd is the
    //  pattern, the 3rd is the charset, and the 4th selects case-sensitive matching.  The pattern
    //  supports literal characters plus "*", which matches zero or more characters.

    ssh = CkSshW_Create();

    sshPort = 22;
    success = CkSshW_Connect(ssh,L"ssh.example.com",sshPort);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkSshW_lastErrorText(ssh));
        CkSshW_Dispose(ssh);
        return;
    }

    //  Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
    //  from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
    password = L"mySshPassword";

    success = CkSshW_AuthenticatePw(ssh,L"mySshLogin",password);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkSshW_lastErrorText(ssh));
        CkSshW_Dispose(ssh);
        return;
    }

    channelNum = CkSshW_OpenSessionChannel(ssh);
    if (channelNum < 0) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkSshW_lastErrorText(ssh));
        CkSshW_Dispose(ssh);
        return;
    }

    //  Start a shell WITHOUT requesting a PTY.  Without a PTY the shell sees it is connected to a
    //  raw data pipe and enters non-interactive mode: it suppresses the command prompt, does not
    //  echo typed commands back, and skips interactive login scripts.  The output is therefore
    //  clean and easily parseable -- but because no prompt is ever sent, code must not wait for
    //  one.  Instead, have each command print a predictable marker, or wait for EOF / channel close.
    success = CkSshW_SendReqShell(ssh,channelNum);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkSshW_lastErrorText(ssh));
        CkSshW_Dispose(ssh);
        return;
    }

    //  There is no prompt to wait for, so make the command itself announce when it has finished
    //  by echoing a marker after it.
    success = CkSshW_ChannelSendString(ssh,channelNum,L"ls -l /tmp; echo DONE_MARKER\n",L"utf-8");
    if (success == FALSE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkSshW_lastErrorText(ssh));
        CkSshW_Dispose(ssh);
        return;
    }

    //  IMPORTANT: Set a read timeout before receiving until a match.  ReadTimeoutMs defaults to 0,
    //  which means no limit -- without it, this call waits forever if the received data never
    //  contains a match.
    CkSshW_putReadTimeoutMs(ssh,15000);

    //  Receive until the marker appears in the output.
    caseSensitive = FALSE;
    success = CkSshW_ChannelReceiveUntilMatch(ssh,channelNum,L"DONE_MARKER",L"utf-8",caseSensitive);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkSshW_lastErrorText(ssh));
        CkSshW_Dispose(ssh);
        return;
    }

    output = CkSshW_getReceivedText(ssh,channelNum,L"utf-8");
    if (CkSshW_getLastMethodSuccess(ssh) == FALSE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkSshW_lastErrorText(ssh));
        CkSshW_Dispose(ssh);
        return;
    }

    wprintf(L"%s\n",output);

    CkSshW_Disconnect(ssh);


    CkSshW_Dispose(ssh);

    }