A.13. Expect

For installation instructions see Section 5.12.

A.13.1. Official Download Location

Expect (5.39.0):
http://expect.nist.gov/src/

Expect Spawn Patch:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/expect-5.39.0-spawn.patch

A.13.2. Contents of Expect

The Expect package provides a program that performs programmed dialogue with other interactive programs.

Installed program: expect

Installed library: libexpect5.39.a

A.13.3.

A.13.4. Short description

expect "talks" to other interactive programs according to a script.

A.13.5.

A.13.6. Expect Installation Dependencies

Expect depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, Tcl.