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- .so man.macros
- .HS eval tcl
- .BS
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- .SH NAME
- eval \- Evaluate a Tcl script
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- \fBeval \fIarg \fR?\fIarg ...\fR?
- .BE
-
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .PP
- \fBEval\fR takes one or more arguments, which together comprise a Tcl
- script containing one or more commands.
- \fBEval\fR concatenates all its arguments in the same
- fashion as the \fBconcat\fR command, passes the concatenated string to the
- Tcl interpreter recursively, and returns the result of that
- evaluation (or any error generated by it).
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- .SH KEYWORDS
- concatenate, evaluate, script
-