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Command line automation with Expect-lite

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:00:00 GMT
Expect is a venerable tool for scripting interactive command-line tools. One normally sees expect coupled with the TCL programming language -- for example, in the DejaGNU test environment. Expect-lite is a wrapper for expect designed to allow you to capture an interactive session more directly mapped into a script. The expect-lite language also includes simple conditionals and other programming language elements, and can be readily mixed with bash programming.


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Devel::GDB::LowLevel(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 Devel::GDB::LowLevel(3pm)

NAME
Devel::GDB::LowLevel - Low-level interface for communicating with GDB DESCRIPTION
This module is used internally by Devel::GDB. It handles the low-level I/O of communicating with the GDB process. CONSTRUCTOR
new Spawns a GDB process. Because this class only facilitates communication with GDB (not with the inferior process being debugged), you have to decide what to do with the "STDIN", "STDOUT", and "STDERR" of that process. There are a few options available: * If STDIN is a tty, we can have the inferior process communicate directly with the controlling tty (emulating the default behavior of gdb): $gdb = new Devel::GDB::LowLevel( '-execfile' => $path_to_gdb, '-params' => $extra_gdb_params ); * Or, we can create an "Expect" object to communicate with the inferior process: $gdb = new Devel::GDB::LowLevel( '-create-expect' => 1 ); $expect = $gdb->get_expect_obj(); * Or, we can create our own tty and use that: $gdb = new Devel::GDB::LowLevel( '-use-tty' => '/dev/pts/123' ); METHODS
send Sends a raw line of text to GDB. This should not contain any newlines (they will be stripped). This method only sends a request, and does not wait for a response. get_reader Returns the file handle from which to read GDB responses. get_expect_obj Returns the "Expect" object created in the constructor. Dies if '-create-expect' was not passed to "new". interrupt Send SIGINT to the GDB session, interrupting the inferior process (if any). SEE ALSO
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Copyright (C) 2007 by Antal Novak & Josef Ezra This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available. perl v5.8.8 2008-02-03 Devel::GDB::LowLevel(3pm)