[2018-12-29 23:24] Clark Wang <[email protected]> > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Clark Wang <[email protected]> > > * Package name : sexpect > Version : 2.1.8 > Upstream Author : Clark Wang <[email protected]> > * 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.
Looks interesting. If you need some guidance with Debian processes, I am ready to help.
