Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell

Grouped Summary of Commands

Process Interaction

close	Close connection to a spawned process.
disconnect	Disconnect forked process from terminal.
exp_continue	Continue execution during expect command.
expect	Match patterns and perform actions based on process output.
expect_after	Match patterns and specify actions to perform after expect command pattern matching.
expect_background	Match patterns and specify actions to perform outside of expect command.
expect_before	Match patterns and specify actions to perform before expect command pattern matching.
expect_tty	Similar to expect, but reads from /dev/tty.
expect_user	Similar to expect, but reads from standard input.
inter_return	Causes an interact or interpreter command to perform a return in its caller.
interact	Transfer control of a process to the user.
interpreter	Connect user to the Tcl interpreter.
overlay	Execute a new program in place of Expect.
send	Send a string to a spawned process.
send_error	Send a string to standard error output.
send_log	Send a string to the log file.
send_tty	Send a string to /dev/tty.
send_user	Send a string to standard output.
spawn	Create a new spawned process.
wait	Wait for a spawned process to terminate.

Utility Commands

debug	Start, stop, or return status of the debugger.
exit	Cause Expect to exit.
exp_getpid	Return current process ID.
exp_internal	Enable, disable, or log diagnostic output.
exp_open	Convert spawn ID to Tcl file descriptor.
exp_pid	Return process ID for spawned process.
expect_version	Return, generate an error, or exit based on Expect ...