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Chapter 12: Console operation

• Quail Specification
  • Chapter 12: Console operation
    • 12.1 Running Quail from console (simple)
    • 12.2 Global flags
      • 12.2.1 Global flags list
      • 12.2.2 Global flags syntax
    • 12.3 Custom flags
      • 12.3.1 Custom flags values types
      • 12.3.2 Custom flags syntax
    • 12.4 General form of Quail start command

12.1 Running Quail from console (simple)

To launch Quail script, simply run following command:

java -jar yourQuailJarName.jar run yourQuailProgram.q

E.g.:

project
|-- quail.jar
|-- main.q

java -jar quail.jar run main.q

12.2 Global flags

Global flags can modify behaviour of Quail

12.2.1 Global flags list

• encoding (default: UTF-8) - default encoding for files
• ignoreDocs (default: false) - whether to parse Quail docs or ignore them
• displayReturnValue (default: false) - whether to display return value of file
• debugPort (default: 4004) - remote debugger port
• addons (default: ` `) - list of addons (Chapter 16)

12.2.2 Global flags syntax

Global flags are passed via following syntax: -G.globalFlagName=value

E.g.: java -jar quail.jar -G.encoding="cp1251" run main.q

12.3 Custom flags

12.3.1 Custom flags values types

• i - integer
• b - boolean
• s - string
• d - double

12.3.2 Custom flags syntax

Custom flags are passed via following syntax: -tF.customFlagName=value, where t is value type

E.g.: java -jar quail.jar -bF.ignoreModifiers=true run main.q

12.4 General form of Quail start command

java -jar <path to quail jar package> [global and custom flags] run <path to target script>

E.g.: java -jar quail.jar -G.encoding="cp1251" -bF.ignoreModifiers=true run main.q

E.g.: java -jar quail.jar run main.q