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Re:Expect – Linux tool for automating interactive programs by philxor on Friday August 30, 2024 @09:49PM (#41406072)
Linux tool? Hate when everything Unix automatically gets categorized as Linux. Have used Expect for many years for many use cases from automating servers to networking use cases as well.
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Re:Expect – Linux tool for automating interactive programs by lizknope on Friday August 30, 2024 @11:40PM (#41406411)
I used Tcl and Expect on Solaris at a job in 1995
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Re:Expect – Linux tool for automating interactive programs by pokstad on Friday August 30, 2024 @10:59PM (#41406280)
I’ve used Expect on Windows systems. Active State provided commercial distributions of TCL for Windows.
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Re:Expect – Linux tool for automating interactive programs by Borborygymus on Saturday August 31, 2024 @04:59AM (#41407466)
I used to use it on HP-UX in the 90s.
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Re:Expect – Linux tool for automating interactive programs by muterad_murilax on Saturday August 31, 2024 @06:18AM (#41407756)
Poor soul.
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Re:Expect – Linux tool for automating interactive programs by dredmorbius on Saturday August 31, 2024 @06:26AM (#41407786)
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41272562>
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Re:Expect – Linux tool for automating interactive programs by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Saturday August 31, 2024 @07:49PM (#41412939)
For example, expect(1) is described in the 1989 Don Libes book "Life with UNIX". Libes is the author of Expect. A title such as "Life with Linux" would probably have made little sense at the time.
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Re:Expect – Linux tool for automating interactive programs by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Sunday September 01, 2024 @07:11PM (#41421159)
Correction: I went back and looked at the book and it does not mention expect. According to Wikipedia expect was first released the following year, in 1990. Apologies for the inadvertence.

Nevethless I think it is safe to say that expect was not written using or for Linux as Linux was not released until 1991.

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Re:Expect – Linux tool for automating interactive programs by hulitu on Monday September 02, 2024 @12:23PM (#41426711)
> Hate when everything Unix automatically gets categorized as Linu

Those days, people are thought to not bother their brain with useless words and knowledge.

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