March 1999
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
18h 21m
English
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Command-Line Options
The expect program accepts the following command-line options:
- expect [-v]
[-d] [-D n]
[-i] [-n]
[-N] [-c
cmds] [[-f|-b]cmdfile] [--] [args] - -v
Display version number and exit.
- -d
Enable diagnostic output.
- -D n
Enable interactive debugger if numeric argument n is non-zero.
- -i
Run in interactive mode.
- -n
Do not read the user's startup file (˜/.expect.rc).
- -N
Do not read the global startup file ($exp_library/expect.rc).
- -c
cmds Specify commands to be executed before starting script. The commands can be separated by semicolons. Multiple -c options can be specified.
- -f
Specify the file from which to read commands.
- -b
Same as -f, but read the input file one line at a time rather than in its entirety.
cmdfileThe file containing Tcl commands to execute. For standard input use "-".
- --
Denote the end of Expect options.
argsAdditional arguments to pass to the Tcl program.
The expectk program accepts the following command-line options:
- expectk
[
options] [cmdfile] [args] - -version
Display version number and exit.
- -Debug
n Enable interactive debugger if numeric argument
nis non-zero.- -interactive
Run in interactive mode.
- -command
cmds Specify commands to be executed before starting script. The commands can be separated by semicolons. Multiple -command options can be specified.
- -diag
Enable diagnostic output.
- -norc
Do not read the user's startup file (˜/.expect.rc).
- -NORC
Do not read the global startup file ($exp_library/expect.rc).
- -file
Specify the file from which to read commands.
- -buffer
Same as -file, but read ...
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