Re: simple CLI architecture

Roman Mashak wrote:
> Hello, All!
>
> I'm trying to implement simple Command Line Interface (CLI) for our
> design based on linux. I will use GCC as compiler. I don't need some special
> features (like command line editing, commands history etc.) by now, just
> simple and basic functionality:
> 1) enter command
> 2) parse command line
> 3) execute code related to command
>
> Seems to be simple but I don't have any idea right now, that's why I ask for
> you to help me out :)
>
> With best regards, Roman Mashak. E-mail: mrv@xxxxxxxx
>
>

Do yourself and all your users a big favor. Use a predefined CLI
package. My favorite is embedded TCL.

This way, your CLI is up in a week, has full scripting and control language,
and has an off the shelf users manual.

.

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