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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 written in
     sh(1)  that  provide common functionality to simplify the implementation of
     complex shell scripts.

     The tool described in this page, also named shtk, is a program that  accom-
     panies  the  Shell Toolkit and provides functionality that may be necessary
     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 output 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 input.

     The following options are supported:

     -m main_function
	   Name  of the function that implements the entry point of the program.
	   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  func-
	   tion 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 es-
	   pecially 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 15.quarterly	November 8, 2014			 SHTK(1)

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