xsh

xsh - XML Editing Shell

SYNOPSIS

  xsh [options] script_or_command
  xsh [options] -al script [arguments ...]
  xsh [options] -p commands < input.xml > output.xml
  xsh [options] -I input.xml -O output.xml commands
  xsh [options] -P file.xml commands
  xsh [options] -cD compiled_script.pl ...

  xsh -u          for usage
  xsh -h          for help
  xsh --man       for the manual page

DESCRIPTION

XSH is an shell-like language for XPath-oriented editing, querying and manipulation of XML and HTML files (with read-only support for DocBook SGML). xsh can work as an interactive shell (with full command-line support such as history, TAB-completion, etc.) or as an off-line interpreter for batch processing of XML files.

XSH COMMANDS

See XSH2 manual page or http://xsh.sourceforge.net/documentation.html for a complete XSH language reference.

For a quick help, type xsh help (just help on xsh prompt).

Type xsh help commands to get list of available XSH commands and xsh help command with command replaced by a XSH command name to get help on a particular command.

SHELL PROMPT

Run xsh help Prompt to get information on how to setup the XSH2 shell prompt.

OPTIONS

--load|-l script-file

Load and execute given XSH script (the script is executed before all other commands provided on the command-line, but after executed ~/.xsh2rc).

--commands|-C

Indicate, that the command-line arguments are XSH commands.

--arguments|-a

Indicate, that the command-line arguments are should be passed to the script via @XML::XSH2::Map::ARGV. This option is incompatible with --commands.

--stdin|-t

Don't display command-prompt even if run from a terminal, expecting XSH commands in the standard input.

--compile|-c

Compile the XSH source and report errors, only. No commands are actually executed.

--dump|-D output_filename.pl

Compiles XSH source(s) into a stand-alone Perl script which can be executed simply with

  perl output_filename.pl [script-arguments ... ]

The compiled Perl script still requires XML::XSH2 modules to be installed, but since it is already precompiled and also because loading of XSH grammar parser is not required, it starts almost instantly, compared to its XSH source.

Note that the compiled script includes init file (unless -f flag was used), and it also preserves run-time flag settings used during the compilation.

Use -c to suppress execution of the compiled script.

--quiet|-q

Quiet mode: suppress all unnecessary informatory ouptut.

--format

Start with indent 1 (on) and keep_blanks 0 (off) to allow nice indenting of the XML output.

--validation|-v

Start with validation, load_ext_dtd, parser_expands_entities and parser_completes_attributes 1 (on).

--no-validation|-w

Start with validation, load_ext_dtd, parser_expands_entities and parser_completes_attributes 0 (off).

--debug|-d

Print some debug messages.

--no-init|-f

Ignore ~/.xsh2rc

--version|-V

Print XSH version info and exit.

--interactive|-i

Start interactive mode with xsh command prompt. By default, the interactive mode is only started if xsh is running from a terminal and neither XSH commands nor a script are given on the command-line.

--non-interactive|-n

Force non-interactive mode.

--pipe|-p

This is a special mode in which xsh acts as a pipe-line processing tool. In this mode, first the standard input is read and opened as a document _ (underscore), then all XSH commands given in ~/.xsh2rc, command-line and given XSH scripts are applied and finally the (possibly modified) document _ is dumped back on the standard output. It is equivallent to -I - -O - and -P -.

--input|-I filename