[Expectperl-discuss] Expect on STDIN/STDOUT

[Boyd A. <boy...@us...>]

Hi,

I'm interested in getting screen and Expect to work together in a 
slightly less clunky way than I currently have.

Currently I use something like:

my $exp = Expect->spawn("screen -x -p $window_name");

which fires up a new instance of screen that shares the same session 
(in a multi-user way) with my interactive one. This works fine, but I 
wonder if there isn't a way to use screen's "exec" command to fire up 
my script.

The "exec" command in screen allows a program to be run which is 
connected in a customisable way to the session in the window. In 
particular, I can connect STDOUT and STDIN of my spawned script to the 
input and output of my window respectively. This would be wonderful if 
I could get Expect to chat on STDIN/STDOUT, rather than a spawned 
process.

So, is there a way to run a perl Expect script so that it chats on 
STDIN/STDOUT? (I guess this could be useful for debugging too)

Boyd