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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright 2008 Kate Ward. All Rights Reserved.
+# Released under the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License)
+#
+# Author: kate.ward@forestent.com (Kate Ward)
+#
+# This is the proverbial 'Hello, world!' script to demonstrate the most basic
+# functionality of shFlags.
+#
+# This script demonstrates accepts a single command-line flag of '-n' (or
+# '--name'). If a name is given, it is output, otherwise the default of 'world'
+# is output.
+
+# source shflags
+. ../src/shflags
+
+# define a 'name' command-line string flag
+DEFINE_string 'name' 'world' 'name to say hello to' 'n'
+
+# parse the command-line
+FLAGS "$@" || exit 1
+eval set -- "${FLAGS_ARGV}"
+
+echo "Hello, ${FLAGS_name}!"