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# Command-Line Tools
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Racket provides, as part of its standard distribution, a number of
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command-line tools that can make racketeering more pleasant.
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## 1. Compilation and Configuration: `raco`
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The `raco` \(short for “**Ra**cket **co**mmand”\) program provides a
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command-line interface to many additional tools for compiling Racket
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programs and maintaining a Racket installation.
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* `raco make` compiles Racket source to bytecode.
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For example, if you have a program `"take-over-world.rkt"` and you’d
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like to compile it to bytecode, along with all of its dependencies, so
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that it loads more quickly, then run
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`raco make take-over-the-world.rkt`
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The bytecode file is written as `"take-over-the-world_rkt.zo"` in a
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`"compiled"` subdirectory; `".zo"` is the file suffix for a bytecode
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file.
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* `raco setup` manages a Racket installation, including manually
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installed packages.
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For example, if you create your own library collection called
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`"take-over"`, and you’d like to build all bytecode and documentation
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for the collection, then run
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`raco setup take-over`
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* `raco pkg` manages packages that can be installed through the Racket
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package manager.
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For example, to see the list of installed packages run:
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`raco pkg show`
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To install a new package named `<package-name>` run:
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`raco pkg install <package-name>`
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See \[missing\] for more details about package management.
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For more information on `raco`, see \[missing\].
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## 2. Interactive evaluation
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The Racket REPL provides everything you expect from a modern interactive
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environment. For example, it provides an `,enter` command to have a REPL
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that runs in the context of a given module, and an `,edit` command to
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invoke your editor \(as specified by the `EDITOR` environment variable\)
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on the file you entered. A `,drracket` command makes it easy to use your
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favorite editor to write code, and still have DrRacket at hand to try
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things out.
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For more information, see \[missing\].
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## 3. Shell completion
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Shell auto-completion for `bash` and `zsh` is available in
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`"share/pkgs/shell-completion/racket-completion.bash"` and
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`"share/pkgs/shell-completion/racket-completion.zsh"`, respectively. To
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enable it, just run the appropriate file from your `.bashrc` or your
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`.zshrc`.
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The `"shell-completion"` collection is only available in the Racket Full
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distribution. The completion scripts are also available
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[online](https://github.com/racket/shell-completion).
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