Hi, I'm trying to find some more info or a tutorial about Term::Shell, as I'm struggling to understand how to use it beyond the basic examples presented in the POD docs.

I've had a look around on Google, perl.com etc. but haven't managed to find anything else as yet. Does anyone know of any tutorials, or maybe examples of working code that they have found/used ?

Specifically, I don't understand how to use the methods in the 'Term::Shell API' section of the POD. Once the mainloop() method is called, how can/do you use the other listed methods ? One area I'm particularly interested in using is the possible_actions() method, for auto-completion of commands, but I don't know where to put it, or when it would be called.

Sorry if I'm missing something fundamental here !

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