Exploring expect a tcl-based toolkit for automating interactive programs

Expect is quickly becoming a part of every UNIX user's toolbox. It allows you to automate Telnet, FTP, passwd, rlogin, and hundreds of other applications that normally require human interaction. Using Expect to automate these applications will allow you to speed up tasks and, in many cases,...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Libes, Don, 1958- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly & Associates, Inc [1995]
Edition:First edition
Series:Nutshell handbook
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627262106719
Table of Contents:
  • Brief Table of Contents; Extended Table Of contents; Preface; How To Read This Book; 1. Introduction - What Is Expect?; 2. Tcl - Introduction And Overview; 3. Getting Started With Expect; 4. Glob Patterns And Other Basics; 5. Regular Expressions; 6. Patterns, Actions, And Limits; 7. Debugging Patterns And Controlling Output; 8. Handling A Process And A User; 9. The Expect Program; 10. Handling Multiple Processes; 11. Handling Multiple Processes Simultaneously; 12. Send; 13. Spawn; 14. Signals; 15. Interact; 16. Interacting With Multiple Processes; 17. Background Processing
  • 18. Debugging Scripts19. Expect + Tk = Expectk; 20. Extended Examples; 21. Expect, C, And C++; 22. Expect As Just Another Tcl Extension; 23. Miscellaneous; Appendix - Commands and Variables; Index Of Scripts; Index