Andreas Schwab wrote:
What I'm suggesting is to experimentally build a version of bash which has
mv/cp/ls/stat/grep/.... all built in.
This is possible without rebuilding bash, see the documentation of the
`enable' builtin. There are already a few examples in the bash
distribution under examples/loadables.
Thanks - that's interesting to know.
However, most of the examples seem to be cut-down functions in some way
- I can see that becoming incompatible/non-portable.
What I was contemplating is to build in most of the actual gnu utils
with the aim of making eg the builtin "grep" functionally identical to
/bin/grep.
Then I could make a system-wide change, replacing the regular bash shell
with the fat-bash, and still have everything work...
Richard
