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Old 12-06-2013
TCL query

Hi all,

while surfing across the net, I came across these lines,
Quote:

An even better approach is to start your script files with the following three lines:
#!/bin/sh
# the next line restarts using tclsh \
exec tclsh "$0" ${1+"$@"}
In that I did not get how "# the next line restarts using tclsh \
" . . ?

I found this on below link,

http://tmml.sourceforge.net/doc/tcl/tclsh.html

Please refer original page once.

Thanks in advance . .

- MD

Last edited by manands07; 12-06-2013 at 07:24 AM..
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Old 12-06-2013
Well that line is saying:
execute ( and replace current shell by) tclsh and now process $0 etc...
$0 being the name of your script...
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