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+Create multishell scripts from your .tcl .sh and .ps1 scripts that are stored here.
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+Use the deck scriptwrap commands to generate a multishell .cmd file from your scripts.
+This .cmd is a 'polyglot' script - it should run when called from any of the target interpreters.
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+A multishell .cmd file is a cross-platform script that can easily be run on Windows and unix-like platforms.
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+The .cmd extension is primarily a convenience so that it can be run easily by name on windows but it is ok to either leave it as that on other platforms, or rename it appropriately.
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+On unix-like platforms it can be called with a bourne shell such as sh or bash.
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+On windows, it can also be called with sh or bash if they are available - but the usual method would be to run it under cmd.exe initially just by opening a cmd prompt and running it.
+This will run some windows batch script to automatically generate a corresponding .ps1 file and execution will switch to powershell 5 or powershell 7 (pwsh) if available.
+Subsequently the command can be run directly from powershell. 
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+Whether called from Bourne shell, or cmd.exe or powershell - the usual payload would be your wrapped Tcl code - but it's also possible for powershell or sh/bash to be the primary payload script.
+Any of these languages could easily be used to detect and launch other scripts/utilities that you may distribute with your app.
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