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		nix0n on April 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moreutils: A collection of Unix tools that nobody ... There's a tool for this type of thing called Expect[0], written in TCL. [0] https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index

rwmj on April 16, 2022 [–]

And for completeness, miniexpect which is a small C library implementing the same sort of thing: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/miniexpect-a-small-exp...

  $ wc -l miniexpect.[ch]
  489 miniexpect.c
  110 miniexpect.h

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