EXECLINE-COMPONENTS(7)

🎀 NAME 🎀

execline-components — example components of an execlineb script

okay bestie, welcome to execline-components(7) 💖 this is the whole vibe: a tiny annotated script showing off execline components, and we are obsessed.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so literally the whole manual is this script, comments and all. read it like the group chat — the code is main character energy, and the comments are the lore 💅

#!/command/execlineb -P

# This execlineb script will sleep for 1 second, then print some
# silly things on the standard output.

foreground     # an unquoted string, evaluated to: foreground
{              # A single opening brace, not included in the argv
  sleep 1      # Two unquoted strings, evaluated to " sleep" and " 1"
               # (without the quotation marks).
}              # A single closing brace, evaluated to the empty word

"echo"     # this is a quoted string. It will evaluate to the word: echo

foo\ bar\ zoinx  # This is one word, since the spaces are escaped
"foo bar zoinx"  # This is exactly the same word, written another way

 " # this is not a comment, since it is inside a quoted string
# This is not a comment either \" # nor is this " # but this is one

"\0x41\66\0103D\n"   # This is the string ABCD followed by a newline.
                     # Be careful: the newline will be part of the word.

 \n   # this is not a newline, but the single word: n

$23   # This will NOT be replaced by anything with execline-1.y, unless
      # substitution is explicitly asked for in the script.
      # The dollar is no special character for the execline binary.

baz"$1"qux  # This will evaluate to the word baz$1qux
baz\$1qux   # Same here
baz$1qux    # Same here in execline-1.y

${PATH}   # This will NOT be replaced by execline ; use the importas command
          # if you need the $PATH value.

'this is not a string'  # it will be parsed as five separate words

"\
"        # This will be parsed as the empty word. A (backslash, newline)
         # sequence inside a quoted string is entirely removed.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

this man page is ported from the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/execline/componentsb.txt

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Laurent Bercot
• Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> (man page port)

mwah 💋 this page is from Debian, dated September 28, 2021 — EXECLINE-COMPONENTS(7), and that's the whole vibe. periodt. 🫶