On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:13:01 +0930, "Jeff Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > <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? ;-)
That's why I like *nix eg I learned vi in late 80's, still using it :-) > expect is by far the most common solution to this use case. Didn't want to invest time in it and then have someone say "oh, you should have used tool x-de-jour to do that, so much easier!"... -- Sonia Hamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
