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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting handling filespec in bash script Post 302212176 by Annihilannic on Sunday 6th of July 2008 07:43:21 PM
Old 07-06-2008
What if someone ran your script using scriptname *.dat? You couldn't write case statements to handle all those possibilities... you should leave it to the shell to look after glob expansion, that's its job.

Consider using getopts or similar to process the command-line parameters. It can differentiate between parameters that are filenames, and those that are switches (i.e. beginning with "-") and whether or not those switches have additional non-filename parameters that follow them.
 

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pkg::create

pkg::create(n)						       Tcl Built-In Commands						    pkg::create(n)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       pkg::create - Construct an appropriate 'package ifneeded' command for a given package specification

SYNOPSIS

       ::pkg::create -name packageName -version packageVersion ?-load filespec? ... ?-source filespec? ...
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       ::pkg::create  is  a utility procedure that is part of the standard Tcl library.  It is used to create an appropriate package ifneeded com-
       mand for a given package specification.	It can be used to construct a pkgIndex.tcl file for use with the package mechanism.

OPTIONS

       The parameters supported are:

       -name packageName
	      This parameter specifies the name of the package.  It is required.

       -version packageVersion
	      This parameter specifies the version of the package.  It is required.

       -load filespec
	      This parameter specifies a binary library that must be loaded with the load command.  filespec is a list	with  two  elements.   The
	      first  element  is  the name of the file to load.  The second, optional element is a list of commands supplied by loading that file.
	      If the list of procedures is empty or omitted, ::pkg::create will set up the library for direct loading (see pkg_mkIndex).  Any num-
	      ber of -load parameters may be specified.

       -source filespec
	      This  parameter  is  similar to the -load parameter, except that it specifies a Tcl library that must be loaded with the source com-
	      mand.  Any number of -source parameters may be specified.

       At least one -load or -source parameter must be given.

SEE ALSO

       package(n)

KEYWORDS

       auto-load, index, package, version

Tcl									8.3							    pkg::create(n)
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