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I was thinking more of code examples. Expect is capable of doing much more than just the basic 'expect', then 'send' pattern. For example, this article: 'Mos

• lilyball 10y ago
  The article mentioned it's used for testing gcc and LLVM. If you want an example you can actually look at, it's also used for testing the fish-shell (fish-shell has other tests too, but expect is specifically used to actually test user-visible behavior, which makes expect the perfect tool for the task). You can find those tests in https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/tree/master/tests https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/tree/master/tests. The files of the form "foo.expect" are the tests (the "foo.expect.err" and "foo.expect.out" files are how it interacts with the rest of the testing infrastructure), and the file interactive.expect.rc provides a bunch of helper functions for the expect scripts, and in particular a standard way of looking for prompts (because the shell will redraw the prompt at various times, this function, coupled with the fish code in interactive.config, lets the expect scripts tell when it's the old prompt redrawn versus the new prompt after a command has been executed).