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| author | Menno Duursma <druiloor@zonnet.nl> | 2010-10-19 23:36:40 -0500 |
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| committer | Erik Hanson <erik@slackbuilds.org> | 2010-10-20 10:50:24 -0500 |
| commit | 0ae61b19ec2c193103fe9cd6e6e0ae30e7016382 (patch) | |
| tree | 2da5fbc3df2c067c594df3b004db87e74c0c51d9 /development/empty/README | |
| parent | 98dd9dbd3ce85506d6026a90e8a7d368443ef5ee (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-0ae61b19ec2c193103fe9cd6e6e0ae30e7016382.tar.gz | |
development/empty: Added (automate otherwise interactive sessions)
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/development/empty/README b/development/empty/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ce436c1c13 --- /dev/null +++ b/development/empty/README @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Empty - an expectlike tool to run command-line interactive programs in +UNIX shell-scripts + +empty is an utility that provides an interface to execute and/or interact +with processes under pseudo-terminal sessions (PTYs). It can be used to +automate otherwise interactive programs like telnet, ssh, and ftp. In +some cases, empty can be the simplest replacement for TCL/expect or other +(similar) programming tools. + +Empty is also Somewhat similar in functionality to POTS modem chat(8) or the +scripting capabilities of minicom(1); however it's small and general purpose. |