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Linux tool? Hate when everything Unix automatically gets categorized as Linux. Have used Expect for many years for many use cases from automating servers to ne
by philxor 2y ago
Linux tool? Hate when everything Unix automatically gets categorized as Linux. Have used Expect for many years for many use cases from automating servers to networking use cases as well.
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- pokstad 2y agoI’ve used Expect on Windows systems. Active State provided commercial distributions of TCL for Windows.
- lizknope 2y agoI used Tcl and Expect on Solaris at a job in 1995
- Borborygymus 2y agoI used to use it on HP-UX in the 90s.
- muterad_murilax 2y agoPoor soul.
- dredmorbius 2y ago<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41272562 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41272562>
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y agoFor example, expect(1) is described in the 1989 Don Libes book "Life with UNIX". Libes is the author of Expect. A title such as "Life with Linux" would probably have made little sense at the time.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y agoCorrection: I went back and looked at the book and it does not mention expect. According to Wikipedia expect was first released the following year, in 1990. Apologies for the inadvertence. Nevethless I think it is safe to say that expect was not written using or for Linux as Linux was not released until 1991.
- hulitu 2y ago> Hate when everything Unix automatically gets categorized as Linu Those days, people are thought to not bother their brain with useless words and knowledge.