On 10/08/2017 03:11 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> I guess that instead of changing the semantics of
> command_not_found_handle, a new special trap could be added that
> executes in the context of the shell performing the command lookup.
Possible, but magic traps can be ugly. I often end
On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 11:16:33AM -0500, Dan Douglas wrote:
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> Thinking out loud some more... it does make sense that a user in an
> interactive session expects commands to not alter their shell environment,
> and a badly written command_not_found_handle could do that, possibly
> without the
On 10/08/2017 10:41 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> On 10/08/2017 09:47 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> It was originally intended to take the place of the error message that
>> bash prints when it can't find a program to execute. That message was
>> printed by the subshell forked to execute the command, so the
On 10/08/2017 09:47 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> It was originally intended to take the place of the error message that
> bash prints when it can't find a program to execute. That message was
> printed by the subshell forked to execute the command, so the message could
> be redirected (nearly ll shells
On 10/8/17 4:54 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> On 10/07/2017 02:53 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
>> The bash manual and info pages state:
>>
>> | If the search is unsuccessful, the shell searches for a
>> | defined shell function named 'command_not_found_handle'. If that
>> | function exists, it is invoked
On 10/07/2017 02:53 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> The bash manual and info pages state:
>
> | If the search is unsuccessful, the shell searches for a
> | defined shell function named 'command_not_found_handle'. If that
> | function exists, it is invoked with the original command and the
> | origina
On 10/7/17 3:53 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> The bash manual and info pages state:
>
> | If the search is unsuccessful, the shell searches for a
> | defined shell function named 'command_not_found_handle'. If that
> | function exists, it is invoked with the original command and the
> | original co
