On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:07:40AM +1000, 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? > > [1] http://expect.nist.gov/ > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect
I was going to mention the Python version, but I note it's listed on the wikipedia external links along with a bunch of others. I'm not sure whether you'd call it more modern. There's only so many ways you can write a program which expects and sends :-) I'm thinkin' that 'empty' looks interesting though. It's got a useful comparison of the various "expects" on its front page: http://empty.sourceforge.net/ I remember attempting to use pexpect (python expect) to mass change some passwords for me. And me failing miserably for some annoying python compatibility reason. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
