On 13Oct2007 13:00, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Somebody in the thread at some point said: | > I am trying to run a Bash script that uses 'expect', 'send' and 'spawn'. Please show us the script. | > I have installed 'expect' but cannot find out what rpm's contain 'send' | > and 'spawn' | > | > Can you tell me where these are? | | # yum whatprovides /usr/bin/send | | nmh.i386 1.2-20070115cvs.3.fc7 fedora | | Matched from: | /usr/bin/send | /usr/bin/send | | package nmh provides /usr/bin/send, nothing provides a "spawn".... they | seem to be curiously generic names though... Yeah, which is why nmh's install should have its commands off in a subdirectory somewhere, not in the main $PATH. | are you sure they aren't | functions defined elsewhere in the bash script maybe? I seem to recall they're part of expect itself, used to do I/O and process forking. And thus not separate commands. (Goes and reads "man expect", like the OP should have...) Yep, they're part of expect';s scripting language. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. - Kingsley Amis
