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.

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