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tclsh8.5(1)		       Tcl Applications			   tclsh8.5(1)

NAME
       tclsh8.5 - Simple shell containing Tcl interpreter

SYNOPSIS
       tclsh8.5 ?-encoding name? ?fileName arg arg ...?

DESCRIPTION
       Tclsh8.5	 is  a shell-like application that reads Tcl commands from its
       standard input or from a file and evaluates them.  If invoked  with  no
       arguments  then	it runs interactively, reading Tcl commands from stan‐
       dard input and printing command results and error messages to  standard
       output.	 It runs until the exit command is invoked or until it reaches
       end-of-file on its standard input.  If there exists a file .tclshrc (or
       tclshrc.tcl  on	the  Windows  platforms)  in the home directory of the
       user, interactive tclsh8.5 evaluates the file  as  a  Tcl  script  just
       before reading the first command from standard input.

SCRIPT FILES
       If  tclsh8.5  is	 invoked  with	arguments then the first few arguments
       specify the name of a script file, and, optionally, the encoding of the
       text  data  stored  in  that script file.  Any additional arguments are
       made available to the script as	variables  (see	 below).   Instead  of
       reading	commands  from	standard input tclsh8.5 will read Tcl commands
       from the named file;  tclsh8.5 will exit when it reaches the end of the
       file.   The end of the file may be marked either by the physical end of
       the medium, or by the character, If this character is  present  in  the
       file,  the  tclsh8.5 application will read text up to but not including
       the character.  An application that requires this character in the file
       may  safely  encode it as or or may generate it by use of commands such
       as format or binary.  There is no automatic evaluation of .tclshrc when
       the  name  of  a script file is presented on the tclsh8.5 command line,
       but the script file can always source it if desired.

       If  you	create	a  Tcl	script	in  a  file  whose   first   line   is
       #!/usr/local/bin/tclsh8.5  then you can invoke the script file directly
       from your shell if you mark the file as executable.  This assumes  that
       tclsh8.5	 has been installed in the default location in /usr/local/bin;
       if it is installed somewhere else then you  will	 have  to  modify  the
       above  line  to	match.	 Many UNIX systems do not allow the #! line to
       exceed about 30 characters in length, so be sure that the tclsh8.5 exe‐
       cutable can be accessed with a short file name.

       An  even better approach is to start your script files with the follow‐
       ing three lines: #!/bin/sh # the next line restarts  using  tclsh8.5  \
       exec  tclsh8.5  "$0"  "$@"  This approach has three advantages over the
       approach in  the	 previous  paragraph.	First,	the  location  of  the
       tclsh8.5 binary does not have to be hard-wired into the script:	it can
       be anywhere in your shell search path.	Second,	 it  gets  around  the
       30-character  file  name	 limit	in the previous approach.  Third, this
       approach will work even if tclsh8.5 is itself a shell script  (this  is
       done on some systems in order to handle multiple architectures or oper‐
       ating systems:  the tclsh8.5 script selects one of several binaries  to
       run).   The  three  lines  cause	 both  sh  and tclsh8.5 to process the
       script, but the exec is only executed by sh.  sh processes  the	script
       first;	it  treats the second line as a comment and executes the third
       line.  The exec statement  cause	 the  shell  to	 stop  processing  and
       instead	to  start  up  tclsh8.5	 to reprocess the entire script.  When
       tclsh8.5 starts up, it treats all three lines as	 comments,  since  the
       backslash  at  the  end	of the second line causes the third line to be
       treated as part of the comment on the second line.

       You should note that it is also common  practice	 to  install  tclsh8.5
       with its version number as part of the name.  This has the advantage of
       allowing multiple versions of Tcl to exist on the same system at	 once,
       but  also  the  disadvantage  of making it harder to write scripts that
       start up uniformly across different versions of Tcl.

VARIABLES
       Tclsh8.5 sets the following Tcl variables:

       argc	      Contains a count of the number of arg  arguments	(0  if
		      none), not including the name of the script file.

       argv	      Contains	a  Tcl	list  whose elements are the arg argu‐
		      ments, in order, or an empty string if there are no  arg
		      arguments.

       argv0	      Contains	fileName if it was specified.  Otherwise, con‐
		      tains the name by which tclsh8.5 was invoked.

       tcl_interactive
		      Contains 1 if  tclsh8.5  is  running  interactively  (no
		      fileName was specified and standard input is a terminal-
		      like device), 0 otherwise.

PROMPTS
       When tclsh8.5 is invoked interactively it  normally  prompts  for  each
       command	with  You  can	change	the  prompt  by	 setting the variables
       tcl_prompt1 and tcl_prompt2.  If variable tcl_prompt1  exists  then  it
       must consist of a Tcl script to output a prompt;	 instead of outputting
       a prompt tclsh8.5 will evaluate the script in tcl_prompt1.   The	 vari‐
       able  tcl_prompt2  is used in a similar way when a newline is typed but
       the current command is not yet complete; if tcl_prompt2 is not set then
       no prompt is output for incomplete commands.

STANDARD CHANNELS
       See Tcl_StandardChannels for more explanations.

SEE ALSO
       encoding(n), fconfigure(n), tclvars(n)

KEYWORDS
       argument, interpreter, prompt, script file, shell

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