David,

I added your enhancements in DoItFirst-System-Support-dtl.15 on SqueakSource:

  DoItFirst image arguments:
      --doit argumentlist "evaluate each argument as a doIt expression"
      --evaluate arg "evaluate arg, print result then exit"
      --file filename "evaluate contents of filename, print result then exit"
      --filein filelist "file in each file named in fileList"
      --cwd path "set FileDirectory defaultDirectory to path prior to evaluating other options"
      --debug "enter a debugger as soon as possible in the startUp processing"
      --help "print this message"
  some arguments have single character synonyms, -f is a synonym for --file, -d for --doit
  single '-' may be used instead of '--', -help is interpreted as --help


Dave

On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 03:56:41PM -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> These are very good suggestions, sorry I did not reply earlier.
> 
> It sounds like a good Sunday Squeaker project for tomorrow after
> I get a good pot of coffee going :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 08:12:05AM +0100, stes at PANDORA.BE wrote:
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> > I've a request for enhancement.
> > 
> > I like the DoItFirst package, but I think there should be -f option,
> > like in AWK to read from a source file.
> > 
> > For example:
> > 
> > bash-4.4$ squeak squeak.image  -- -help           
> > DoItFirst image arguments:
> > 	-doit argumentlist "evaluate each argument as a doIt expression"
> > 	-evaluate arg "evaluate arg, print result then exit"
> > 	-filein filelist "file in each file named in fileList"
> > 	-cwd path "set FileDirectory defaultDirectory to path prior to evaluating other options"
> > 	-debug "enter a debugger as soon as possible in the startUp processing"
> > 	-help "print this message"
> > 
> > bash-4.4$ cat loop.st 
> > |cltn index|
> > cltn _ OrderedCollection new.
> > index _ 1.
> > [index <= 10] whileTrue: [cltn add: index. index _ index + 1].
> > cltn
> > 
> > bash-4.4$ squeak squeak.image  -- -evaluate "`cat loop.st`"
> > an OrderedCollection(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)
> > 
> > What I'd propose is to add a -f which is like -evaluate and the 'cat'.
> > 
> > bash-4.4$ squeak squeak.image  -- -f loop.st
> > an OrderedCollection(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)
> > 
> > As far as I can see the DoItFirst package does not have this, because -filein
> > is not quite the same.
> > 
> > When I try
> > bash-4.4$ squeak squeak.image  -- -filein loop.st          
> > 
> > that doesn't work.  So a -f option would be nice, 
> > or is there a solution that I don't see ?
> > 
> > Also a short name like -c or -e as a shortcut for -evaluate would be nice.
> > 
> > In any case, I've tried DoItFirst both with the squeak-4 from subversion,
> > and the squeak-5 from OpenSmalltalk (Cog VM and Stack VM release 5.0 with
> > Squeak6.0alpha images) and the DoItFirst package seems to work fine.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > David Stes
> > 
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