+This directory contains scripts that give examples of using Pexpect.
+
+hive.py
+ This script creates SSH connections to a list of hosts that
+ you provide. Then you are given a command line prompt. Each
+ shell command that you enter is sent to all the hosts. The
+ response from each host is collected and printed. For example,
+ you could connect to a dozen different machines and reboot
+ them all at once.
+
+script.py
+ This implements a command similar to the classic BSD "script" command.
+ This will start a subshell and log all input and output to a file.
+ This demonstrates the interact() method of Pexpect.
+
+fix_cvs_files.py
+ This is for cleaning up binary files improperly added to
+ CVS. This script scans the given path to find binary files;
+ checks with CVS to see if the sticky options are set to -kb;
+ finally if sticky options are not -kb then uses 'cvs admin'
+ to set the -kb option.
+
+ftp.py
+ This demonstrates an FTP "bookmark".
+ This connects to an ftp site; does a few ftp commands; and then gives the user
+ interactive control over the session. In this case the "bookmark" is to a
+ directory on the OpenBSD ftp server. It puts you in the i386 packages
+ directory. You can easily modify this for other sites.
+ This demonstrates the interact() method of Pexpect.
+
+monitor.py
+ This runs a sequence of system status commands on a remote host using SSH.
+ It runs a simple system checks such as uptime and free to monitor
+ the state of the remote host.
+
+passmass.py
+ This will login to a list of hosts and change the password of the
+ given user. This demonstrates scripting logins; although, you could
+ more easily do this using the pxssh subclass of Pexpect.
+ See also the "hive.py" example script for a more general example
+ of scripting a collection of servers.
+
+python.py
+ This starts the python interpreter and prints the greeting message backwards.
+ It then gives the user interactive control of Python. It's pretty useless!
+
+rippy.py
+ This is a wizard for mencoder. It greatly simplifies the process of
+ ripping a DVD to mpeg4 format (XviD, DivX). It can transcode from any
+ video file to another. It has options for resampling the audio stream;
+ removing interlace artifacts, fitting to a target file size, etc.
+ There are lots of options, but the process is simple and easy to use.
+
+sshls.py
+ This lists a directory on a remote machine.
+
+ssh_tunnel.py
+ This starts an SSH tunnel to a remote machine. It monitors the connection
+ and restarts the tunnel if it goes down.
+
+uptime.py
+ This will run the uptime command and parse the output into python variables.
+ This demonstrates using a single regular expression to match the output
+ of a command and capturing different variable in match groups.
+ The regular expression takes into account a wide variety of different
+ formats for uptime output.
+
+df.py
+ This collects filesystem capacity info using the 'df' command.
+ Tuples of filesystem name and percentage are stored in a list.
+ A simple report is printed. Filesystems over 95% capacity are highlighted.
+