Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module T212. This topic is presented on public courses
Learning to program in Tcl,
Tcl Basics
Tcl Programming - The Tcl programming language, and Expect
This course covers the fundamentals of the Tcl
programming language. You'll learn about Tcl ... http://www.wellho.net/course/tbfull.html [course] |
Learning to Program in Tcl - The Tcl programming language, and Expect
This course covers the fundamentals of the Tcl
programming language. You'll learn ... http://www.wellho.net/course/tlfull.html [course] |
Ping is a very useful command to use within scripts for checking the presence (or absence) of a live system on our network, or indeed on the Internet. ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/2489_Par ... lists.html [short article] |
If you're typing the same series of instructions into your computer time and time again, perhaps with predictable variations depending on the responses ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/2474_Usi ... -jobs.html [short article] |
Earlier this week, I gave a much-tailored Tcl course, with a strong helping of expect.
Expect adds three major extra commands to Tcl - spawn to start ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1785_Wha ... pect-.html [short article] |
Programming in Expect can be very different (and more challenging) than conventional programming. Rather than write code (structured, if you like) through ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1173_Che ... iners.html [short article] |
Our web site has grown over the years, and we've developed a number of very useful scripts such as our quotation system that's written in Perl and our ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/675_Addi ... ogram.html [short article] |
Expect can be used to control multiple connections at the same time Ð a useful facility if it's connecting to processes that take a long elapsed time to run. In this module, you'll learn how to control multiple processes, never an easy task, but much easier with Expect than with other languages!
This topic is presented on public courses
Learning to program in Tcl,
Tcl Basics
Examples from our training material
| botget | parallel expect example - get robots.txt from several servers |
| exp_ping | expect - multiple parallel pings, Red Hat Linux version |
| livetest.exp | Web based script - ping a series of remote hosts |
| mex | multiple processes through expect |
| osx_tkpingle | Checking which machines are online - Mac OSX |
| pingle | parallel pings - Caldera Linux version |
| server.tce | Expect script, web server, CGI |
| tkpingle | Checking network continuity using ping, Expect and a Tk GUI |
Pictures
Expect can handle multiple parallel processes
Background information
Some modules are
available for download as a sample of our material or under an
Open Training Notes License for free download from
http://www.training-notes.co.uk.
Topics covered in this module
Multiple processes.
Spawn id s.
Expecting from multiple processes.
Adding Tk as well.
A few words of caution.
Expect on a Web server.
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