It sounds like Expect is the way to go. Below is what I want to do, does Expect still make sense ? I was to "push" a set of scripts to a remote system, execute them, collect logs and move then back to my server, then clean up the remote server. So, script executed remotely is not interactive, but I need to do other actions pre/post executing the script. btw - what is /dev/world ? I don't see it on my Linux/Unix boxes.