What's sexpect

sexpect is another implementation of Expect which is specifically designed for Shell scripts (sh, bash, ksh, zsh, ...).

sexpect is designed in the client/server model. sexpect spawn PROGRAM [option].. starts the server (running as a daemon) and runs the specified PROGRAM in background. Other sexpect sub-commands (send, expect, wait, ...) communicate to the server as client commands.

How to build

Sexpect uses CMake for building.

$ cd /path/to/cloned/sexpect/
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ make install

By default it will install to /usr/local/ and sexpect will be installed to /usr/local/bin/. To change the installation location, run cmake like this:

$ cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/sexpect  ..

Supported platforms

Tested on:

• OpenWRT 15.05.1, ramips/mt7620 (on Newifi Mini, or Lenovo Y1 v1)
• Debian Linux 9 (Stretch)
• macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)
• FreeBSD 11.1
• Cygwin on Windows 10

Manual

See doc/sexpect.adoc.

Examples

See the examples/ dir.