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It's very frustrating to see something like this that claims to be very useful, but shows no examples on the page. >Expect is a tool for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect really makes this stuff trivial. How? >Expect can make easy all sorts of tasks that are prohibitively difficult with anything else. You will find that Expect is an absolutely invaluable t…
For python, there's pexpect: http://pexpect.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Wow, a blast from the past. I still have some expect tools I wrote long ago that I use and maintain to this day. Not so much new stuff since scripting languages have gotten better at doing what expect does -- often calling their modules "expect" and using the exact same syntax. I once wrote a webserver in Expect. No, it's not a good language for writing a webserver.
Wow, a blast from the past. I still have some expect tools I wrote long ago that I use and maintain to this day. Not so much new stuff since scripting languages have gotten better at doing what expect does -- often calling their modules "expect" and using the exact same syntax. I once wrote a webserver in Expect. No, it's not a good language for writing a webserver.
Tcl is a perfectly fine language for writing web servers with, actually. It was possible to do a nice, lightweight, evented web server years before Node.js showed up. AOLserver is also done with Tcl, and for a while in the 90ies, was one of the best systems for doing dynamic web sites.
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Tcl is a perfectly fine language for writing web servers with, actually. It was possible to do a nice, lightweight, evented web server years before Node.js showed up. AOLserver is also done with Tcl, and for a while in the 90ies, was one of the best systems for doing dynamic web sites.
My understanding was that AOLserver was the NCSA (pre-Apache httpd) server, with TCL as an extension language, not that AOLserver was written in TCL. Weird.
It's Tcl, by the way, not TCL.
https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/tree/master/testsuite/expec...
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I used pexpect as a base technology for ShutIt: http://ianmiell.github.io/shutit/ it really is 95% of tcl's expect functionality, much easier to debug and understand. I'm grateful it exists, and it's much under-used I think.
Nice. I have a somewhat similar tool but it doesn't do much besides check for password expiry and do password changes. It uses pexpect but also multiprocessing and multiprocessing.Queue. I built most of it before we started using Ansible at work, but it is still useful in those places where Ansible is clumsy.
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I used pexpect as a base technology for ShutIt: http://ianmiell.github.io/shutit/ it really is 95% of tcl's expect functionality, much easier to debug and understand. I'm grateful it exists, and it's much under-used I think.
It was great to see ShutIt during the last Docker London!