[Tutor] responding to command line

[Alan Gauld]

On 25/11/15 08:27, Patrick Hess wrote:
> richard kappler wrote:
>> and I want the script to detect that password request and provide the
>> password (Same for all 500 + machines, so no issue there).
> 
> My recommendation would be to take a look at Expect[1].
> 
> Yes, I know, it's not Python, but using a tool specifically
> tailored to handle this kind of task will make life so much
> easier that it even justifies the use of Tcl. ;-)

But there is a python wrapoper round expect - pexpect - that
means you don't need to learn Tcl :-)

https://github.com/pexpect/pexpect

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