Editing Expect (section)

== Alternatives ==
Various projects implement Expect-like functionality in other languages, such as [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[Scala (programming language)|Scala]], [[Groovy programming language|Groovy]], [[Perl]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]], [[Shell script|Shell]] and [[Go (programming language)|Go]]. These are generally not exact clones of the original Expect, but the concepts tend to be very similar.

=== C# ===
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131224094314/http://blog.iwanek.eu/expect-net/ Expect.NET]&nbsp;— Expect functionality for C# (.NET)
* [https://github.com/CBonnell/dotnetexpect DotNetExpect]&nbsp;— An Expect-inspired console automation library for .NET

=== Erlang ===
* [https://github.com/hawk/lux lux] - test automation framework with Expect style execution commands.

=== Go ===
* [https://github.com/google/goexpect GoExpect]&nbsp;- Expect-like package for the Go language
* [https://github.com/Netflix/go-expect go-expect]&nbsp;- an Expect-like Go language library to automate control of terminal or console based programs.

=== Groovy ===
*[https://github.com/iTransformers/expect4groovy expect4groovy]&nbsp; - a Groovy DSL implementation of Expect tool.

=== Java ===
*[https://github.com/Alexey1Gavrilov/ExpectIt ExpectIt] —  a pure Java 1.6+ implementation of the Expect tool. It is designed to be simple, easy to use and extensible.
*[https://github.com/cverges/expect4j expect4j]&nbsp;— an attempt at a Java clone of the original Expect
* [http://expectj.sourceforge.net/ ExpectJ]&nbsp;— a Java implementation of the Unix expect utility
* [https://github.com/ronniedong/Expect-for-Java Expect-for-Java]&nbsp;— pure Java implementation of the Expect tool
* [https://github.com/iTransformers/expect4java expect4java]&nbsp; - a Java implementation of the Expect tool, but supports nested closures. There is also wrapper for Groovy language DSL.

=== Perl ===
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/expectperl Expect.pm]&nbsp;— [[Perl]] module (newest version at [https://metacpan.org/pod/Expect metacpan.org])

=== Python ===
* [https://github.com/pexpect/pexpect Pexpect]&nbsp;— [[Python (programming language)|Python]] module for controlling interactive programs in a pseudo-terminal
* [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/winpexpect winpexpect]&nbsp;— port of pexpect to the Windows platform
* [https://github.com/fgimian/paramiko-expect paramiko-expect]&nbsp;— A Python expect-like extension for the Paramiko [[Secure Shell|SSH]] library which also supports tailing logs.

=== Ruby ===
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170311165445/http://rubyforge.org/projects/rexpect RExpect]&nbsp;— a drop in replacement for the expect.rb module in the standard library.
* [https://github.com/jesnault/expect4r Expect4r]&nbsp;— Interact with Cisco IOS, IOS-XR, and Juniper JUNOS CLI

=== Rust ===
* [https://crates.io/crates/rexpect rexpect]&nbsp;- pexpect-like package for the Rust language.

=== Scala ===
* [https://github.com/Lasering/scala-expect scala-expect]&nbsp;— a Scala implementation of a very small subset of the Expect tool.

=== Shell ===
* [http://empty.sourceforge.net Empty]&nbsp;— expect-like utility to run interactive commands in the Unix shell-scripts
* [https://github.com/clarkwang/sexpect sexpect]&nbsp;— Expect for shells. It's implemented in the client/server model which also supports attach/detach (like [[GNU Screen|GNU screen]]).