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Is there a way to ask expect wait for sometime before running the next send command ?
Hi all,

After expect catches the string I specify, is there a way to ask expect wait for sometime before running the next send command ?
So my script looks like following,

expect "some string"
#How to ask expect to wait for a while
send "next command"

The reason I want to do this is because after the process I deal with sends out the string I expect it may also send out some other strings which depends on the then situation. So I won't be able to ask to expect catch those strings. Or I don't bother to do that because as long as the "some string" is caught by expect I am happy. I don't care the next texts that spawned process outputs. I just need to wait for them to finish then send my next command.

So how to do that ?

Thanks!
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send-nntp

SEND-UUCP(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      SEND-UUCP(8)

NAME

       send-nntp, send-ihave - send Usenet articles to remote site

SYNOPSIS

       send-nntp [ -d ] sitename:hostname | sitename [ sitename:hostname | sitename ..	]

       send-ihave [ -d ] sitename:hostname | sitename [ sitename:hostname | sitename ..  ]

DESCRIPTION

       The send-* utilities are scripts that process the batch files written by innd(8) to send Usenet articles to a remote NNTP site.

       The sites to be fed may be specified by giving sitename hostname pairs on the command line.

       The sitename is the label the site has in the newsfeeds file, the hostname is the real hostname of the remote site, a FQDN (Fully Qualified
       Domain Name).  Normally, the sitename and the hostname are the same, and as such don't have to be specified as sitename:hostname pairs  but
       just as a sitename.

       send-nntp starts an innxmit to send the articles to the remote site.

       send-ihave  encapsulates  the articles in an ihave control message and uses inews to send the articles to a to.sitename pseudo-group. Using
       send-ihave is discouraged, nobody uses it anymore and even the author of this manpage is unsure as to how it  actually  works  or  used	to
       work.

       send-*  expect  that  the batchfile for a site is named <pathoutgoing in inn.conf>/sitename.  To prevent batchfile corruption, shlock(1) is
       used to ``lock'' these files.

OPTIONS

       -d     The ``-d'' flag causes nntpsend to send output to stdout rather than the log file <pathlog in inn.conf>/<program-name>.log.

NOTES

       You should probably not use send-nntp, but innfeed, or if that is not possible, nntpsend.

       The usual flags for a batch file for send-nntp are ``Tf,Wfm''.

SEE ALSO

       newsfeeds(5), nntpsend(8)

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