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expect in-port patternprocedure

The function waits until the output from a process matches the pattern, a specified time period has passed, or an EOF is seen. The first argument to the function is an in-port the second argument is a Tcl glob-style string pattern.

Returns one of the following values

  • ok
  • eof
  • timeout
  • fullbuffer