Exploring Expect
Subtitle: a Tcl-based toolkit for automating interactive programs
By: Don Libes.
Edition: 1st ed., November 1996: Minor corrections.
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Cambridge; Sebastopol, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 566
Subjects: Expect; UNIX (Computer file); Software -- handbooks; Programming Languages -- handbooks
Genres: handbooks.
Notes: Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: what is Expect?; title: 2. Tcl; title: introduction and overview; title: 3. Getting started with Expect; title: 4. Glob patterns and other basics; title: 5. Regular expressions; title: 6. Patterns, actions, and limits; title: 7. Debugging patterns and controlling output; title: 8. Handling a process and a user; title: 9. The Expect program; title: 10. Handling multiple processes; title: 11. Handling multiple processes simultaneously; title: 12.Send; title: 13. Spawn; title: 14. Signals; title: 15. Interact; title: 16. Interacting with multiple processes; title: 17. Background processing; title: 18. Debugging scripts; title: 19. Expect + Tk = Expectk; title: 20. Extended examples; title: 21. Expect, C, and C++; title: 22. Expect as just another Tcl extension; title: 23. Miscellaneous.