execline
execline is a very light, non-interactive scripting language, which is similar to a shell. Simple shell scripts can be easily rewritten in the execline language, improving performance and memory usage. execline was designed for use in embedded systems, but works on most Unix flavors.
| Tags | Software Development Interpreters Embedded Systems Shells |
|---|---|
| Licenses | BSD Original |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 23 Oct 2008 13:53
Changes: This release adds some features to execline, namely a way to break out of loops early, a better design for conditional branching, a fallback for the exec command, and more. It also fixes a build problem with Mac OS X.
- 24 Jan 2007 17:33
Changes: Some user-suggested improvements have been implemented. The code base itself is stable and has no reason to change.
- 01 Mar 2004 00:45
Changes: This release features major improvements in the substitution semantics and facilities, as well as use of the new, reliable APIs from skalibs.
- 26 Jul 2003 22:19
Changes: This release of execline makes scripts reentrant, so that you can now write execline commands in the execline language. It also adds some basic commands, and fixes a few minor bugs.
- 09 Apr 2003 06:50
Changes: A slightly undesirable behavior with crunching splits was corrected. This release also keeps in sync with skalibs-0.23, and features what is probably the smallest possible execline quine.
