- expect
Expect.pm
Expect.pm written by Austin Schutz and maintained by Roland Giersig
- Provides a way to describe user behavior in a command line environment.
- Can send information as if it was typed on the keyboard.
- Can wait for some Expect-ed value and based on this value do something.
- Originally an extension of Tcl.
- Ported to Perl.
- Can be used in environments such as:
- Works on Linux/Unix/OSX.
- Does NOT work on MS Windows.
- Command line application like bc.
- Telnet to another box and type in things.
- Anything usually a person would do on the command line.