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Greetings!

I would say that expect is quite a different beast entirely. I think of expect more as an interactive scripting language. Something you might use in place of bash to write a small script that requires user interaction.

Run is more of the tool you might use to organize your expect / bash / etc. scripts and easily invoke them.

Pretty much every dev I know has used makefiles as a means to organize small, non-build-related, scripts and shell wrappers. Run hopes to be a better tool for doing that.

Thanks for the question - I hope that helped - Please let me know if you have any other questions or comments.



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