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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting expect help Post 302411379 by RTM on Thursday 8th of April 2010 11:08:25 AM
Old 04-08-2010
example of counter

Code:
#!/usr/bin/expect
set foo 0
while {$foo <= 5} {
incr foo
send "$foo"
}
return $foo

 

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