On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 9:55 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:
--- valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: From: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 00:43:35 +0200, Niels Bakker said:
Fine as a personal exercise, of course. The inability to download modules seems sadistic to me, though.
Yeah... just download RANCID and check the command line options. Expect is mainly of historical interest, and the code already exists in several forms, so no need to completely re-invent the wheel (as a square) here. I call shenanigans about the avoidance of Perl modules. No real-world system has such constraints. Besides, Expect itself is a module / extension of the Tcl language and requires the use of dynamically-loaded extension libraries for pattern matching and various functions, so using Expect would break the "No modules rule". If you're not allowed the use of modules, then your implementation option is pretty much to write in something that compiles to straight machine language. -- -JH