I use Perl for a lot of my scripts, so the Expect Perl module is great for automation without having to switch over to TCL. https://metacpan.org/pod/distributi

I use Perl for a lot of my scripts, so the Expect Perl module is great for automation without having to switch over to TCL. https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Expect/Expect.pod https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Expect/Expect.pod The regex matching features of the Perl version make it extremely useful to match and extract interactive results.