Example showing how to use this library to ssh to a remote machine with a password and send a command:

https://github.com/rwmjones/miniexpect/blob/master/example-s...

I think the library is quite elegant because it essentially does very little itself. It's implemented almost entirely using the "partial match" feature of PCRE: https://pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2partial.html This means it can use the super-powerful regexps in PCRE, while itself being only a few hundred lines of code.

This library has been used for years (since 2014) to do physical to virtual machine conversions, specifically for connecting from the physical machine to the remote hypervisor and automating virt-v2v: https://github.com/libguestfs/virt-p2v/blob/master/virt-p2v.... https://github.com/libguestfs/virt-p2v/blob/master/ssh.c