On 8/19/13 6:57 AM, Andreas Gregor Frank wrote:
> Hi Chet,
>
> I have no idea if there is "enough" demand, but i think there will be some
> ideas to use this feature...
> I still think it is a question of consistency to be able to handle a "No
> such file or directory event", if i can do this with a "command not found
> event" (independent of the command_not_found_handle history).
>
> You say you can easily test whether or not if the file in the pathname exists.
That is not what I said. I said that you, the script writer, can check
whether or not a filename containing a slash is executable before
attempting to execute it. Maybe a function something like this (untested):
ckexec()
{
case "$1" in
*/*) ;;
*) "$@" ; return $? ;;
esac
if [ -x "$1" ]; then
"$@"
else
other-prog "$@"
fi
}
Chet
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