send & spawn

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sat Oct 13 22:48:55 UTC 2007


Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>> I am trying to run a Bash script that uses 'expect', 'send' and 'spawn'.
>>
>> I have installed 'expect' but cannot find out what rpm's contain 'send'
>> and 'spawn'
>>
>> Can you tell me where these are?
> 
> # yum whatprovides /usr/bin/send
> 
> nmh.i386                                 1.2-20070115cvs.3.fc7  fedora
> 
> Matched from:
> /usr/bin/send
> /usr/bin/send
> 
> package nmh provides /usr/bin/send, nothing provides a "spawn".... they
> seem to be curiously generic names though... are you sure they aren't
> functions defined elsewhere in the bash script maybe?

spawn is a TCL verb (expect extends TCL), and send may be too.

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