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Support for line-oriented command interpreters
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This manual section was written by Eric S. Raymond
<esr@snark.thyrsus.com>.
Build line-oriented command interpreters.

The `Cmd' class provides a simple framework for writing line-oriented
command interpreters.  These are often useful for test harnesses,
administrative tools, and prototypes that will later be wrapped in a
more sophisticated interface.

`Cmd()'
     A `Cmd' instance or subclass instance is a line-oriented
     interpreter framework.  There is no good reason to instantiate
     `Cmd' itself; rather, it's useful as a superclass of an
     interpreter class you define yourself in order to inherit `Cmd''s
     methods and encapsulate action methods.

Cmd Objects