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Expect: Curing Those Uncontrollable Fits of Interaction

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Author(s)

Don E. Libes

Abstract

UNIX programs used to be designed so that they could be connected with pipes created by a shell. This paradigm is insufficient when dealing with many modern programs that demand to be used interactively. Expect is a program designed to control interactive programs. Expect reads a script that resembles the dialogue itself but which may include multiple paths through it.
Proceedings Title
Proceedings of the Summer 1990 USENIX Conference
Pub Type
Conferences

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Keywords

Expect, interactive programs, programming, shell, UNIX

Citation

Libes, D. (1990), Expect: Curing Those Uncontrollable Fits of Interaction, Proceedings of the Summer 1990 USENIX Conference, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=821311 (Accessed October 24, 2025)

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Created January 1, 1990, Updated February 17, 2017
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