Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Clark Wang <dearv...@gmail.com>
* Package name : sexpect Version : 2.1.8 Upstream Author : Clark Wang <dearv...@gmail.com> * URL : https://github.com/clarkwang/sexpect * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Expect for Shells Expect is for Tcl. Expect.pm is for Perl. Pexpect is for Python. ... But what for shells? Quite often, shell scripters need to use Expect to progmatically interact with another program. The big problem is they don't have time to learn Tcl's syntax or they don't want to. I developed "sexpect" which is a single program. It works like GNU screen. It runs the spawned process on a pty in background as a daemon and it can talk with the daemon and control the spawned process. Example: # sexpect spawn ssh user@host echo hello world # sexpect expect -nocase password: # sexpect send -cstring 'password\r' # sexpect expect -eof # sexpect wait
