as3shebang – The ActionScript 3.0 Interpreter

as3shebang is an executable program based on the RedTamarin runtime.

It allows you to run uncompiled ActionScript 3.0 source code as an executable shell script.

The executable is totally independent of any other installed runtimes, and so can be installed with Redtamarin runtimes in parallel or without them.

Install

Download the package for your operating system

• Windows
  as3shebang_1.0.0_win32.deb for 32-bit systems
  as3shebang_1.0.0_win64.deb for 64-bit systems
• Mac OS X
  as3shebang_1.0.0_darwin-i386.deb for 32-bit systems
  as3shebang_1.0.0_darwin-amd64.deb for 64-bit systems
• Linux
  as3shebang_1.0.0_i386.deb for 32-bit systems
  as3shebang_1.0.0_amd64.deb for 64-bit systems

Windows Install

You will need a POSIX environment setup
and may have to install redtamarin-setup.bat first
see Redtamarin Windows Environment Setup

install
$ wpkg -i as3shebang_1.0.0_win64.deb

Mac OS X Install

You need the command-line tool dpkg installed
either use MacPorts $ port install dpkg or Brew $ brew install dpkg

install
$ sudo dpkg -i as3shebang_1.0.0_darwin-amd64.deb

If you receive some errors because of gnutar not found, you can force the install with
$ sudo dpkg --force-all -i as3shebang_1.0.0_darwin-amd64.deb

Linux Install

$ sudo dpkg -i as3shebang_1.0.0_amd64.deb

Example

Create a script
$ touch test

Make it executable
$ chmod +x test

Edit the script
$ nano test

Starts the script with the shebang line

#!/usr/bin/as3shebang

// Use AS3 to write some shell scripts :)
import shell.Program;
import shell.Runtime;

trace( "hello world" );

trace( "    Program.type = " + Program.type );
trace( "Program.filename = " + Program.filename );
trace( "startupDirectory = " + Program.startupDirectory );
trace( "    Program args = " + Program.argv );
trace( "" );
trace( "Redtamarin v" + Runtime.version + " " + (Runtime.is64bit() ? "64-bit": "32-bit" ) );

Run the script
$ ./test
$ ./test a b c