This is an application created by default by the core distribution. It is a simple shell interpreter, and is frequently used by developers writing tcl scripts.
A user of tclsh (or of wish, the interactive tcl shell with Tk automatically loaded), should be aware that there are a few differences between typing tcl statements to the shell in interactive mode and typing tcl commands into a file and then executing it.
- tcl_interactive
- interactive
- this variable is set
- command file
- this variable is set to 0
- unknown proc differences - if tclsh is unable to recognize the command typed, the unknown proc is invoked.
- interactive
- unknown will automatically pass command to exec .
- command file
- the coder must specify exec before any non-tcl commands
- abbreviations
- interactive
- the unknown command looks to see if the typed command is an abbreviation of an existing command and, if it is, invokes it. Thus in interactive mode it's possible to write
set fp [op $myfile]
- command file
- would require open be written out in full.
- standard output displayed
- interactive
- stdout appears to the screen when you type commands
- command file
- the coder must specify puts to get the output from a command to display to the screen
- byte-compilation
- interactive
- prompt commands are byte compiled
- command file
- top level commands are not byte compiled
Category Application, a part of the Tcl package.