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5.45.4_6,1

Sophisticated scripter based on Tcl/Tk

Expect is a program that performs programmed dialogue with other interactive programs. It is briefly described by its man page, expect(1). It uses pseudo-tty's to control the child processes, so it is not affected by programs that refuse to read from stdin or pipes. (eg: passwd(1) etc).

Origin: lang/expect
Category: lang
Size: 391KiB
License: PD
Maintainer: tcltk@FreeBSD.org
Dependencies: 2 packages
Required by: 13 packages
Website: expect.sourceforge.net
$pkg install expect

Dependencies (2)

tcl86tcl-wrapper

Required By (13 packages)

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