Are You Expecting? Your Boss Should Know

Posted by khess on Jul 28, 2010 3:02 PM EDT
Linux Magazine; By Ken Hess
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If you need to automate, you can now automate your automation efforts, while your belly grows big.

If there’s a push for labor-saving ideas at your workplace, here’s one for you: Expect. Expect is a simple scripting language that allows you to initiate interactive command line sessions in an automated fashion. For example, if you want to setup a script to login to a remote system, gather some files and then disconnect from the remote system; expect is the tool to use for that interactive session. But what’s better than creating a script to automate some repetitive task? Automating the creation of that script, of course. And, you can do just that with Autoexpect.

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