[Dev-sig] expect is quite nice

[Robert Leyva]

I wanted to make a script that would auto fetch from cvs for me.

I had already written a fetchFromCVS.sh, but get prompted for a password.

Since I am a debian user, the solution was as simple as downloading
"expect" and creating a new script to wrap the old one:

robert at pip ~ sudo aptitude install expect

then the very simple script that gives a newline when the cvs program asks
for a password...

robert at pip ~/projects/clamav cat ./autoFetchFromCVS.sh
#!/usr/bin/expect -f

spawn ./fetchFromCVS.sh
expect "assword"
send "\n"
expect eof

robert at pip ~/projects/clamav


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Robert Leyva
mrflash818 at geophile.net