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execline - script language to rely entirely on chain loading

  • execline is the first script language to rely entirely on chain loading. An execline script is a single argv, made of a chain of programs designed to perform their action then exec() into the next one.
  • The execlineb command is a launcher: it reads and parses a text file, converting it to an argv, then executes into that argv. It does nothing more.
  • Straightforward scripts like nice -10 echo blah will be run just as they are, without the shell overhead. Here is what the script could look like: 
    #!/command/execlineb -P
nice -10
echo blah
  • More complex scripts will include calls to other execline commands, which are meant to provide some control over the process state and execution flow from inside an argv.
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