Expect.pm

• expect

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.