Exploring Expect

Appendix A. Appendix—Commands and Variables

This appendix is a listing of the commands, flags, and variables built into Expect (not including those provided by Tcl). The listing does not show the complete syntax for each command or flag; this is just an aid to jog your memory as to what is available. Alongside each entry is a brief description and a page number. The page number points to where the command is best described, not necessarily where it first or literally appears.

I have omitted information that is redundant (such as the timestamp substitutions which can all be found on the page which describes timestamp) and the debugger commands (which can be produced by pressing h while in the debugger). I have also omitted commands specific to C and C++ programming since that information is well confined to two short chapters. You can also find all of this in the index.

All of the commands shown here that do not start with "exp" are also callable with the "exp_" prefix. For instance, close can also be called as exp_close.

Commands And Flags

close	close spawned process	Page 101
−i	identify process	245
-slave	close slave of process	291
debug	control debugger	406
-now	start debugger immediately	407
0 or 1	stop or start debugger	406
disconnect	disconnect process from tty	371
exit	exit	35
-onexit	declare exit handler	317
-noexit	invoke exit handlers ...