Besides interactive facilities, TEAPOT has a batch mode. Using
this batch mode, shell scripts can generate output from TEAPOT
sheets. This is handy if you use make(1) to generate a bigger document
containing tables, because you don't have to generate a tbl or LATEX
file each time you modify a sheet: make will do so. In batch mode,
TEAPOT reads batch commands from standard input. The following
commands are available:
- goto location
- Go to the specified location.
- from location
- Start marking a block.
- to location
- End marking a block.
- sort-x d|a y z [ d|a y z ... ]
-
- sort-y d|a x z [ d|a x z ... ]
-
- sort-z d|a x y [ d|a x y ... ]
- Sorts
the marked block as described in section subsec:Sort, column-wise,
row-wise or depth-wise, respectivly. d
or a specify the sort order to be descending
or ascending. x, y and z specify the position
of the sort key relative to the first cell of the marked
block. Up to eight sort keys can be specified. This example reproduces
the result from section 5.3.7:
echo
from &(1,1,0)
to &(2,4,0)
sort-y d 0 0
save-csv result_num.txt
| teapot -b doc/unsorted
- save-tbl file
-
- save-csv file
-
- save-latex file
-
- save-context file
-
- save-html file
- Save the marked block in the
specified format as file.
- load-csv file
- Load file in the specified
format to the last goto location. This has the same functionality
as the interactive load described in subsection 5.12.4.
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