wish

Start interactive Tk shell

$ wish

$ wish [script.tcl]

$ wish [script.tcl] [arg1] [arg2]

$ echo "[button .b -text Hello; pack .b]" | wish

wish [options] [script] [args...]

wish is a Tcl interpreter extended with Tk toolkit commands for creating graphical interfaces. It reads Tcl/Tk commands from files or standard input and executes them, creating GUI windows and widgets.
When run without arguments, wish starts interactively with an empty main window and a "%" prompt for entering commands. Scripts can be made executable with #!/usr/bin/wish as the first line.
Tk provides widgets including buttons, labels, entries, listboxes, canvases, menus, and more. The geometry manager commands (pack, grid, place) control widget layout.

-colormap new

Use new private colormap.

X display to use.

Initial window geometry.

Use name as application name.

Execute X server requests synchronously.

Visual type for main window.

Embed in window with given id.

End of options; remaining args go to script.

In interactive mode, wish displays "%" prompt. Commands are executed after complete statements. Prompts can be customized via tclprompt1 and tclprompt2 variables.

Requires X11 display. Tk applications look dated without theming. Some distributions use versioned names like wish8.6.

wish was created by John Ousterhout alongside Tcl in the late 1980s. Tk was one of the first cross-platform GUI toolkits and influenced many later frameworks. Wish remains popular for quick GUI scripting and is used by tools like gitk.

tclsh(1), tk(n), gitk(1), tkcon(1)