I want to use autoexpect for a simple .sh file but the terminal shows this error:
can't find package Expect while executing "package require Expect" (file "/usr/bin/autoexpect" line 6) my terminal command is:
autoexpect shell.sh I remove expect and install it again but no difference with past!
Can anyone help me?
This is output of dpkg -l | grep tcl; which tclsh; which tclsh8.6; dpkg -S Expect; echo $PATH. Does Anaconda contradict expect?
1 Answer
You have to install the main Expect package by
sudo apt-add-repository universe sudo apt-get install expect and it will install tcl-expect as dependency for you.
To run Expect scripts avoiding problems with Anaconda you have to manually specify PATH variable and then run your expect/tcl script:
export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin autoexpect ./shell.sh or in one line:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin autoexpect ./shell.sh To ease every autoexpect command execution you can add the following alias to the ~/.bashrc:
alias autoexpect='PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin autoexpect' 
