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Lightweight Expect-like PTY tool for automating interactive shell scripts

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Lightweight Expect-like PTY tool for shell scripts

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Start an interactive session and send commands to it

$ empty -f -i /tmp/session
empty -s /tmp/session
echo 'ls -la' | empty -w /tmp/session

Automate a command sequence in a pseudo-terminal

$ empty -f bash
empty -s bash
echo 'whoami' | empty -w bash
echo 'exit' | empty -w bash

Read output from a running PTY session

$ empty -f interactive_shell
empty -r interactive_shell > output.txt