SHCOMP(1)

✨ SHCOMP(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the User Environment Utilities corner of the manual, where we meet shcomp93 — the little tool that squishes your ksh93 shell script into a shiny binary snack. 💖

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🎀 NAME 🎀

shcomp93 — compile a ksh93 shell script. literally that's the whole vibe. ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

shcomp [ options ] [infile] [outfile]]

(no, the double bracket at the end is not me being chaotic, that's just how it is, iykyk 💅)

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🦋 ORIGIN OF THIS MAN PAGE 🦋

This man page was written by Christophe Martin <Schplurtz@free.fr> for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It is based on the output of shcomp --man. giving credit where credit is due, periodt. 🫶

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So unless you pass -D, shcomp takes a shell script, infile, and creates a binary format file, outfile, that ksh93 can read and execute with the exact same effect as the original script. it's giving "same energy, different outfit". ✨

Heads up bestie: since aliases are processed as the script is read, alias definitions whose value requires variable expansion will not work correctly. no cap, that's just the deal. 😭

If -D is specified, all double quoted strings that are preceded by $ get output. These are the messages that need to be translated to locale specific versions for internationalization. 🌈

If outfile is omitted, then the results get written to standard output. And if infile is also omitted, the shell script will be read from standard input. main character energy: it'll just read whatever you feed it. 👑

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -D, --dictionary — generates a list of strings that need to be placed in a message catalog for internationalization. 🌍
• -n, --noexec — displays warning messages for obsolete or non-conforming constructs. it's the vibe check for your script. 🚨
• -v, --verbose — displays input from infile onto standard error as it reads it. so chatty, love that for it. 💬
• --man — displays this man page on standard error and exits. it's literally reading you this page. iconic. 📖
• --help — shows a short help message and exits. the tl;dr version. ⭐

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

• 0 — successful completion. slay. ✅
• >0 — an error occurred. not slay. 😭

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• ksh(1)

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👑 IMPLEMENTATION 👑

• version — shcomp (AT&T Labs Research) 2012-02-29
• author — David Korn <dgk@research.att.com>
• copyright — Copyright (c) 1982-2012 AT&T Intellectual Property
• license — http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/epl-v10.html

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and that's a wrap, bestie 🫶 this whole page comes to you from KSH93, dated Fri Jun 3 2005 — go compile something cute, no cap. 💖✨🎀