On 2007.09.25 11:07 Sonia Hamilton wrote:
I'm starting to learn expect [1][2] to help me automate some programs that prompt for input. Expect dates from the early 90s - is it the right way to go or is there now a better shinier tool/language that I should be learning?
I prefer to use one of the *dialog utilities (ie, dialog, kdialog, gdialog, or -- my dialog-du-jour -- Xdialog) in a shell script and validate the user input in the script. It looks a helluva lot better than expect via a command line. It's prolly also more versatile.
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