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
       --help    Show summary of options

       --version Show slsh version information

       -g        Compile with debugging code, tracebacks, etc

       -n        Don't load personal init file

       -i init-file
                 Use this file instead of default

       -v        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 cor‐
       responding 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'' func‐
       tion (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 AT debian.org> for the Debian sys‐
       tem (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 ver‐
       sion 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.



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