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slsh(1) General Commands Manual slsh(1)

NAME

slsh — interperter for S-Lang scripts

SYNOPSIS

slsh [-i init-file] [-g] [-n] [-v] [--help] [--version] [-|file args]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the slsh command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

slsh is an interpreter for scripts written in the S-Lang language.

OPTIONS

Show summary of options
Show slsh version information
Compile with debugging code, tracebacks, etc
Don't load personal init file
Use this file instead of default
Show verbose loading messages

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

Upon startup, the program will try to load slsh.rc as follows:

If either SLSH_CONF_DIR or SLSH_LIB_DIR environment variables exist, then look in the corresponding directories for slsh.rc. Otherwise look in:

$(prefix)/etc (specified in Makefile)
/usr/local/etc/
/usr/local/etc/slsh/
/etc/
/etc/slsh/

The slsh.rc file may load other files from slsh's library directory in the manner described below.

Once slsh.rc is loaded, slsh will load $HOME/.slshrc if present. Finally, it will load the script specified on the command line. If the name of the script is ``-'', then it will be read from stdin.

When a script loads a file via the built-in ``evalfile'' function or the ``require'' function (autoloaded by slsh.rc), the file is searched for along the SLSH_PATH as specified in the Makefile. An alternate path may be specified by the SLSH_PATH environment variable.

The search path may be queried and set during run time via set the get_lib_path and set_lib_path functions, e.g.,

set_lib_path ("/home/bill/lib/slsh:/usr/share/slsh");

SEE ALSO

Examples of S-Lang scripts can be found in /usr/share/doc/slsh/examples/.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.