SPUG: shell script event loops + wrapping shell utilities

[Matt Tucker]

-- dancerboy <dancerboy at strangelight.com> spake thusly:

> So, I wanted to add some minor functionality to a couple of shell
> programs (telnet and ftp, specifically) and the simplest way seemed
> to be simply to wrap them in a Perl script, i/e simply make a Perl
> script that opens the program, and pipes input from the terminal
> (keystrokes) through to the program, and passes characters output
> from the program back to the terminal -- occasionally adding some
> extra keystrokes of its own (the added functionality) but mostly just
> acting as a "bidirectional pipe" between the program and the terminal.

I know this is a Perl list and all that, but have you considered using
expect? It seems like it's designed for this sort of thing.
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