7.3. Expect.pm

• Provides a way to describe user behaviour in a command line environment

• Can send information as if it was typed in the keyboard

• Can wait for some Expect-ed value and based on this value do something

• Originally an extension of Tcl

• Ported to Perl

• Can be used in environments such as:

  • Command line application like bc

  • Telnet to another box and type in things

  • Anything usually a person would do on the command line.