:Linux.com: Automate Interactive Transactions with Expect
Linux.com: Automate Interactive Transactions with Expect Aug 6, 2006, 12 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (6008 reads) (Other stories by Michael Stutz)
"Did you ever wish you could automate your interaction with a program, making a script that can smartly handle an interactive session? You can--with Expect, an extension to the Tcl programming language whose purpose is to communicate with interactive applications.
"You can write Expect programs that automate live sessions, handling any tasks where a user interacts with the system. This suggests a multitude of uses, but where it has been most popularly applied is in software testing and in automating network transfers, such as site updates or downloads..."
