11-06-2010
Thanks Jim.
I would like to read interactively from the shell in the middle of the script.
The shell should wait for the user to enter multiple lines, read and store it in a variable rather than reading from the file.
like how read var; would wait for the user to enter some text.
I want the shell to wait until the user finishes entering his input, till he presses Ctrl+D.
Thanks,
Prasanna
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NAME
tclsh - Simple shell containing Tcl interpreter
SYNOPSIS
tclsh ?-encoding name? ?fileName arg arg ...?
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DESCRIPTION
Tclsh 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 standard 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 tclsh evaluates the file as a Tcl script just
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text data stored in that script file. Any additional arguments are made available to the script as variables (see below). Instead of
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