general procedures to deals with procedure argument passing, error handling, colors (using [VT100 terminal library for TCL]). Source packages: https://github.com/octavsly/octopus Wiki: https://github.com/octavsly/octopus/wiki For example of usage see info_procedures.tcl script. Example of usages: ====== #!/bin/sh # the next line restarts using -*-Tcl-*-sh \ exec stclc -- "$0" ${1+"$@"} if { [info exists env(OCTOPUS_INSTALL_PATH) ] } { lappend auto_path $env(OCTOPUS_INSTALL_PATH) } else { puts "ERROR: Please set environmental variable OCTOPUS_INSTALL_PATH to point to the location of octopus.tcl file" exit 1 } package require octopus 0.1 ... ################################################################################ # BEGIN command line options/arguments parsing ::octopus::add_option "--type" --valid-values "diehard utel poptag" ::octopus::add_option "--listfile" ::octopus::add_option "--temposync" --default "false" ::octopus::add_option "--corrupt-files" --default "false" ::octopus::add_option "--dump-expanded-file-list" --default "false" --type "boolean" ::octopus::add_option "--project-dir" --default "false" ::octopus::add_option "--no-email" --default "false" --type "boolean" ::octopus::extract_check_options_data # END command line options/arguments parsing ################################################################################ puts $type puts $listfile puts $temposync puts $corrupt-files puts $dump-expanded-file-list puts $project-dir puts ${no-email} ====== <>Package