Read a keypress in Expect script

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I'm newbie with Expect and need a simple functionality: wait for a user to press ANY key and then continue the flow. What command in the script should I use for this purpose ?

Thanks.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 09 '11 at 19:16

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This entry on the tcl wiki should answer your question, but it does not use expect.

answered Jun 09 '11 at 19:16

Bradley Swain

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+1 for referring to something I wrote long ago! Note that it still requires that the key produce a character. I note this because I remember seeing a user who used the shift key as the “any key”, and then wondered why nothing was happening. After that, I rewrote my code to ask for the space bar to be pressed. :-) – Donal Fellows Jun 09 '11 at 23:43
@donal I'm just getting into Tcl for an application scripting language for a project at work, and I've been seeing your name around a lot. Thanks for all your contributions. :) – Bradley Swain Jun 10 '11 at 16:10

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 22 '12 at 05:15

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Could you please try this out:

expect "*\r"
expect_continue

edited Feb 22 '12 at 05:15

eeerahul

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answered Feb 22 '12 at 00:41

user1224631

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Read a keypress in Expect script

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