Toby Corkindale <[email protected]> wrote: > The thing is, I'm working on a lot of machines via shell; when I think > of it in advance, I script things up in Fabric to be automated, but when > I'm just working ad-hoc investigating something, I'd like to be able to > automate some common commands. (Not so much shell commands, as commands > entered into programs run from the shell) >
Those programs might have alias capabilities as the shell does, or even just commands to read input from a file. > > > If you ultimately do have to script terminal sessions, the only tool I know > > of > > is expect. Here's the Debian package description. > > Thanks, however I'm aware of expect. It completely fails my requirement > that the terminal remain completely interactive. In that case, I think you're likelty to be out of luck, which is why I'm strongly suggesting that you rethink what the requirements are and find a better way to solve the problem. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
