Expect
Sign in to saveExpect is an extension to the Tcl scripting language written by Don Libes. The program automates interactions with programs that expose a text terminal interface. Expect, originally written in 1990 for the Unix platform, has since become available for Microsoft Windows and other systems.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Expect
- Software.author
- Don Libes
- Software.developer
- Nils Carlson
- Software.latest release version
- 5.45.4
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- POSIX, Windows
- Software.license
- Public domain
- Software.discontinued
- no
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Expect is an extension to the Tcl scripting language written by Don Libes. The program automates interactions with programs that expose a text terminal interface. Expect, originally written in 1990 for the Unix platform, has since become available for Microsoft Windows and other systems.
== Basics == Expect is used to automate control of interactive applications such as Telnet, FTP, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, SSH, and others. Expect uses pseudo terminals (Unix) or emulates a console (Windows), starts the target program, and then communicates with it, just as a human would, via the terminal or console interface. Tk, another Tcl extension, can be used to provide a GUI.
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