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Introducing the CLI
Introducing the CLI
The Command Line Interpreter, or CLI, contains an extensive set of commands
that you can type into a command window. These commands are
embedded in a version of the Tcl command interpreter. When you open a
CLI window, you can enter any Tcl statements that you could enter in any
version of Tcl. You can also enter commands that TotalView Technologies
has added to Tcl that allow you to debug your program. Because these
debugging commands are native to this Tcl, you can also use Tcl to manipulate
the program being debugged. This means that you can use the CLI to
create your own commands or perform any kind of repetitive operation.
For example, the following code shows how to set a breakpoint at line 1038
using the CLI:
dbreak 1038
When you combine Tcl and TotalView, you can simplify what you are doing.
For example, the following code shows how to set a group of breakpoints:
foreach i {1038 1043 1045} {
dbreak $i
}
Chapter 11, “Seeing the CLI at Work,” on page 213 presents more realistic
examples.
Information about the CLI is scattered throughout this book. Chapter 3 of
the TotalView Reference Guide contains descriptions of most CLI commands.
What’s Next
This chapter has presented just a few TotalView highlights. The rest of this
book tells you more about TotalView.
All TotalView documentation is available on our Web site at
http://www.totalviewtech.com/Documentation in PDF and HTML formats.
You can also find this information in the online Help.
14 Chapter 1: Getting Started with TotalView