EXECLINE-COMPONENTS(7)

NAME
execline-components - example components of an execlineb script

DESCRIPTION

    #!/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)