Recital 10 enhanced Recital by enabling it to be used in bash shell scripts and in shell commands which use pipes and/or redirect stdin and stdout. If stdin is not redirected then recital will startup and operate as normal in a terminal window. Additionally you can use heredoc to denote a block of recital commands that should be executed. Note that when used in this manner, no UI commands can be executed and no user interaction is allowed.  

# recital < mrprog.prg 
# recital < myprog.prg > myoutput.txt
# recital > myoutput.txt <<END
use customers
list structure
END
# echo "select * from sales!customers where overdue" | recital | wc -l

Individual commands can be executed in shell scripts.

# recital -c "create database sales"
# recital -c "create table sales!invoices (id int, name char(25), due date)"

Expressions can be evaluated and used in shell scripts.

# VER=`recital -e "version(1)"`

You can view what command line options are available by typing:

# recital --help