[SLL] Can Grub Be Programmed without Expect?

[xeno at eskimo.com]

I would think, I could set up a perfectly good grub.conf file somewhere,
and then from the shell do something like:

grub --config-file=mygrubbyfile.conf

and perhaps some extra switches if it is really menacingly hard to use
and it would just execute the file and that would be the end of it.
Instead it takes me into the little grubland with the prompt, etc.  I've
looked far too long for the more simple case to no avail.  Is there
anybody out there in Linuxland who knows if it is even possible to
program with grub without using an expect script?  (Perhaps they even
sabotage expect. I'd better not speak too soon.)  I hope I am missing
something obvious here.

xc