Re: sending to an xterm

[Emile van Sebille]

Kent Tenney wrote:

Howdy,

I want to open an xterm, send it a command and have it execute it.

I thought pexpect would do this, but I've been unsuccessful.

term = pexpect.spawn('xterm')

starts an xterm, but

term.sendline('ls')

doesn't seem to do anything.

Suggestions?

Thanks,
Kent

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expect or http://www.noah.org/wiki/Pexpect


Emile

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