expect (deprecated)

Disable date: 2028-01-01

Install command:
brew install expect

Program that can automate interactive applications

https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index

License: LicenseRef-Homebrew-public-domain

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/expect.json

Formula code: expect.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
ventura ✅
macOS on
Intel
sonoma ✅
ventura ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 5.45.4

Revision: 3

Patches:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/main/Patches/expect/headers.diff
https://github.com/iains/darwin-expect/commit/2a98bd855e9bf2732ba6ddbd490b748d5668eeb0

Depends on:

tcl-tk@8 8.6.18 Tool Command Language

Depends on when building from source:

autoconf 2.73 Automatic configure script builder
automake 1.20 Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles
libtool 2.6.2 Generic library support script

Conflicts with: ircd-hybrid (because both install an `mkpasswd` binary), bash-snippets (because both install `weather` binaries)

Binaries: autoexpect, autopasswd, cryptdir, decryptdir, dislocate, expect, ftp-rfc, kibitz, lpunlock, mkpasswd, multixterm, passmass, rftp, rlogin-cwd, timed-read, timed-run, tknewsbiff, tkpasswd, unbuffer, weather, xkibitz, xpstat

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