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SHTK(1)			    General Commands Manual		       SHTK(1)

NAME
       shtk -- Interface to the	Shell Toolkit

SYNOPSIS
       shtk build [-m main_function] [-o output_file] [-s shell] [input_file]
       shtk version

DESCRIPTION
       The  Shell Toolkit, or shtk for short, is a collection of modules writ-
       ten in sh(1) that provide common	functionality to simplify  the	imple-
       mentation of complex shell scripts.

       The tool	described in this page,	also named shtk, is a program that ac-
       companies the Shell Toolkit and provides	functionality that may be nec-
       essary  to  use	the toolkit.  For documentation	on the API, please see
       shtk(3).

       The interface of	shtk is	that of	a program with commands	 as  shown  in
       the  synopsis  section.	The following subsections describe the various
       commands	supported by the tool.

   The build command
       The build command takes a script	that uses shtk modules	and  generates
       an  executable script with the necessary	boilerplate code to be able to
       locate said modules.

       The input_file argument specifies the path  to  the  file  to  process.
       This  file  should end with an `.sh' extension, in which	case the build
       command will proceed to generate	a binary of the	same name without  any
       extension.   If the extension is	not present, then the name of the out-
       put file	must be	provided by specifying the -o flag.   The  input  file
       can  also  be `-', in which case	the code is read from the standard in-
       put.

       The following options are supported:

       -m main_function
	     Name of the function that implements the entry point of the  pro-
	     gram.   For  programs  using  the	shkt_unittest(3)  module, this
	     should be passed as -m shtk_unittest_main.

	     All scripts that use shtk should implement	a  main	 function  and
	     should  avoid placing any code at the top level of	the file.  The
	     main function is automatically executed by	the generated  script.
	     If	 the  value of main_function is	empty, then no call to main is
	     issued which may be necessary if the script already has a call to
	     main for whatever reason.

	     Default: `main'.

       -o output_file
	     Path to the output	file to	generate.

	     Default: if input_file ends in `.sh', the	output	file  has  the
	     same name as the input file but without the extension.  Otherwise
	     this flag must be specified.

       -s shell
	     Path to the shell interpreter to write in the shebang line	of the
	     file.

	     Default: /bin/sh.

   The version command
       The  version  command prints the	name of	the package and	its version to
       the standard output.  This command always exits successfully.

ENVIRONMENT
       SHTK_MODULESDIR
	     Overrides the built-in location of	the modules.

       SHTK_MODULESPATH
	     Colon-separated list of directories in which to look for modules.
	     SHTK_MODULESDIR is	always implied at the end of  the  path.   The
	     user  can	define	this  variable	to point to other directories.
	     This is especially	handy in packages that install custom  modules
	     and want to use such modules before installing them.

       SHTK_SHELL
	     Overrides the built-in location of	the default shell interpreter.

FILES
       /usr/local/share/shtk/
	     Location of the shtk modules.

SEE ALSO
       shtk(3)

AUTHORS
       The shtk	package	was developed by Julio Merino <jmmv@google.com>.

FreeBSD	Ports 14.quarterly     November	8, 2014			       SHTK(1)

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