You can find the answer to your question in the class comment: Usage: st [--help] [ --quit ] <FILE> --help list this help message --quit if specified, the image exits without saving after evaluating FILE --save if specified, save the image after evaluating FILE <FILE> a file containing valid Pharo expressions
Documentation: The ST command line handler runs Pharo code stored in a file without quiting. Example: pharo Pharo.image st code.st # By default files ending in .st are recognized and evaluated pharo Pharo.image code.st Doru On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Sebastian Sastre < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > can someone clarify this for me? > > lets say you execute in the terminal: > > pharo-vm-nox some.image save awesome.image --delete-old > > it starts, saves the image and deletes the old one and quits returning > control to terminal > > but if you do: > > pharo-vm-nox some.image ImageBuilder.st save awesome.image --delete-old > > it stays forever open > > I was taking a look at this but what is 'quit' option? can someone explain > the behaviour of this please? > > STCommandLineHandler>>end > | quit | > > quit := self commandLine hasOption: 'quit'. > > (self commandLine hasOption: 'save') > ifTrue: [ Smalltalk snapshot: true andQuit: quit ]. > > quit > ifTrue: [ self exitSuccess ]. > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
