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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Why `expect -D 1' does not work? Post 302208412 by dearvoid on Monday 23rd of June 2008 09:40:48 PM
Old 06-23-2008
Why `expect -D 1' does not work?

On my Ubuntu 6.06 system, expect -D 1 does not work: Smilie
Quote:
-(dearvoid@LinuxEden:Forum)-(~/tmp)-
[$$=3913 $?=0]
; cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=6.06
DISTRIB_CODENAME=dapper
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS"
-(dearvoid@LinuxEden:Forum)-(~/tmp)-
[$$=3913 $?=0]
; /usr/bin/expect -v
expect version 5.42.1
-(dearvoid@LinuxEden:Forum)-(~/tmp)-
[$$=3913 $?=0]
; cat foo.exp
#!/usr/bin/expect -f

exit 0
-(dearvoid@LinuxEden:Forum)-(~/tmp)-
[$$=3913 $?=0]
; /usr/bin/expect -D 1 foo.exp
1: exit 0

dbg1.0>
<--- It exits after this prompt
-(dearvoid@LinuxEden:Forum)-(~/tmp)-
[$$=3913 $?=0]
; bye
 

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NAME
what-patch - detect which patch system a Debian package uses SYNOPSIS
what-patch [options] DESCRIPTION
what-patch examines the debian/rules file to determine which patch system the Debian package is using. what-patch should be run from the root directory of the Debian source package. OPTIONS
Listed below are the command line options for what-patch: -h, --help Display a help message and exit. -v Enable verbose mode. This will include the listing of any files modified outside or the debian/ directory and report any additional details about the patch system if available. AUTHORS
what-patch was written by Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>, Siegfried-A. Gevatter <rainct@ubuntu.com>, and Daniel Hahler <ubuntu@thequod.de>, among others. This manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies <jpds@ubuntu.com>. Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later. SEE ALSO
The Ubuntu MOTU team has some documentation about patch systems at the Ubuntu wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/PatchSystems cdbs-edit-patch(1), dbs-edit-patch(1), dpatch-edit-patch(1) DEBIAN
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