Re: [MACTCL] Close to the source?

[Jim I. <ji...@ap...>]

Tclx has had this -c option in it's shell for a long time.  It would=20
probably be more useful to add the tclxsh shell to the Mac OS X=20
Batteries Included distro (it already has the library) and point=20
AppleScript folks at that, than to try to get this hacked into Tcl. =20
More so because Tclx has a bunch of commands (for_file,=20
for_recursive_glob and the scan* set) which make the kind of one shot=20
commands you typically do in Perl much easier to implement in a simple=20=

command in Tcl.  Take a look at:

http://www.tcl.tk/man/tclx8.2/TclX.n.html

for more details.

Jim

On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 07:12  AM, Philip Aker wrote:

> Hello Tcl developers (main branch),
>
> I'm quoting from a recent exchange between Jon Guyer and myself=20
> regarding tclsh on MacOS X. Is there a chance one of you could=20
> implement a -c command line option for tclsh as would be included in a=20=

> forthcoming release of Mac OS X? I've been trying to promote the=20
> virtues of Tcl to AppleScript users but Tcl just can't compete because=20=

> it has no such option. All the other shells do...
>
>
> Me:
>>>> On another topic completely, tclsh has no -c option for one shot=20
>>>> command line calls. Because of this, Tcl is losing out bigtime as=20=

>>>> being a known power call from AppleScript's 'do shell script'. Do=20=

>>>> you know if there's any compelling reason why the main tclsh=20
>>>> invocation couldn't be changed to handle this option?
>
> Jon:
>>> Nope, I don't know. I'd say the MacTcl list and/or c.l.t are the=20
>>> places to ask.
>
>>> How do you get it to invoke anything besides sh anyway? Or do you=20
>>> just start your script with 'do shell script "/usr/bin/tclsh ..."?
>
>
>> =3D=3D=3D for example look at this dog slow call to bash =3D=3D=3D
>> on Bash_Str2Hex()
>> set str to "=20
>> =
!0123456789@Aabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz=C3=A5=E2=88=AB=C3=A7=E2=88=82=C2=B4=
=C6=92=C2=A9=CB=99=CB=86=E2=88=86=CB=9A=C2=AC=C2=B5=CB=9C=C3=B8=CF=80=C5=93=
=C2=AE=C3=9F=E2=80=A0=C2=A8=E2=88=9A=E2=88=91=E2=89=88=C2=A5=CE=A9"
>> set res to ""
>> repeat with i from 1 to count of str
>> 	set c to character i of str
>> 	set res to res & (do shell script "bash -c 'printf %X " & (ASCII=20=

>> number c) & "'")
>> end repeat
>> res
>> end
>
>
> TIA,
>
>
> Philip Aker
> http://www.aker.ca
>
>
>
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