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USENIX Tenth System Administration Conference (LISA
'96)
How to Avoid Learning Expect -or- Automating Automating Interactive
Programs
Don Libes
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Abstract
Expect is a tool for automating interactive programs. Expect is
controlled by writing Tcl scripts, traditionally a manual process.
This paper describes Autoexpect - a tool that generates Expect
scripts automatically by watching actual interactions and then
writing the appropriate script. Using Autoexpect, it is possible to
create Expect scripts without writing any actual Expect statements
and without any knowledge of Expect.
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