How to automate interactive cli commands with expect

Posted by linuxer on May 6, 2024 3:03 PM EDT
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Expect is a free and open source utility we can use to automatically answer to interactive prompts according to scripts which includes expects/sends commands. In this tutorial, we learn how to install expect on the most used Linux distributions, how to use it to automatically answer to interactive prompts, and how to generate expect scripts with autoexpect.

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