To all .... Re: automating UNIX or Windows scripts ... http://tcl.activestate.com/man/expect5.31/autoexpect.1.html is documentation for Auto-Expect. Autoexpect is an application to create an application! Autoexpect itself is part of the Expect distribution. Once you start autoexpect, you then perform the actions that you want to script with Expect. Once you complete the script generation, it is suggested you exercise the script to check that it does all that you really want it to do, and that all error cases are handled.