Exploring Expect > Interacting With Multiple Processes

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Dedication

Preface

How To Read This Book

Ch. 1. Intro—What Is Expect?

Ch. 2. Tcl—Introduction And Overview

Ch. 3. Getting Started With Expect

Ch. 4. Glob Patterns And Other Basics

Ch. 5. Regular Expressions

Ch. 6. Patterns, Actions, And Limits

Ch. 7. Debugging Patterns And Controlling Output

Ch. 8. Handling A Process And A User

Ch. 9. The Expect Program

Ch. 10. Handling Multiple Processes

Ch. 11. Handling Multiple Processes Simultaneously

Ch. 16. Interacting With Multiple Processes

Connecting To A Process Other Than The Currently Spawned Process

Connecting To A Process Instead Of The User

Example—rz And sz Over rlogin

Redirecting Input And Output

Default Input And Output

Controlling Multiple Processes—kibitz

Combining Spawn Ids In A Single -input Or -output

Which Spawn Id Matched

Indirect Spawn Ids

An Extended Example—xkibitz

Exercises

Ch. 17. Background Processing

Ch. 18. Debugging Scripts

Ch. 19. Expect + Tk = Expectk

Ch. 20. Extended Examples

Ch. 21. Expect, C, And C++

Ch. 22. Expect As Just Another Tcl Extension

Ch. 23. Miscellaneous

Appx. A. Appendix—Commands and Variables

Index

Chapter 16. Interacting With Multiple Processes

The previous chapter had numerous examples, all showing how to create a connection between a user and the currently spawned process. The interact command does this by default, but it is possible to create connections in other ways. In this chapter, I will cover how to use the interact command with a process other than the user and currently spawned process, or with multiple processes.

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