[Dev-sig] expect is quite nice

[Jeremy Leader]

on 09/11/2006 10:29 PM Robert Leyva  wrote:
> 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:
> 
<snip>

An alternative I've seen is to use ssh for cvs access, and set up public-key 
authentication in ssh.

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