<quote who="Sonia Hamilton"> > 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?
Heh. There's a significant chunk of software on your machine that dates from the early eighties or even seventies -- are you looking for shinier versions of those? ;-) expect is by far the most common solution to this use case. - Jeff -- GNOME Boston Summit 2007 http://live.gnome.org/Boston2007 "It doesn't matter if it is good, it only matters if it rocks." - Tenacious D, Rock Your Socks -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
