From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Systematic approach to command-line interfaces
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2021 19:26:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a58f8a96-94c0-2f47-607d-81c70d9a79e4@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFH29trYLZtF3R3_VJ2bzii2suJyb2-hNwr4aZAdNXWL-Vg0fw@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/1/21 3:23 PM, Richard Salz wrote:
>
> >> This lets you execute commands like:
> >>
> >> auth/as
> ...
>
> POSIX forbids this behavior, FWIW, so you'll probably have a hard time
> finding a shell -- at least one with POSIX aspirations -- that
> implements it.
>
>
> So you write a function or alias that prepends the full path to "as" and
> exec's the command. So you have to type "auth as ..." but BFD.
Sure. If you invest effort in building a solution, you can do just about
anything. If you want, you can write a function that generates the set of
aliases you use to do this.
The thing is, you're going to have to build it -- you can't expect to find
a shell that does a $PATH search for a pathname containing a slash.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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2021-07-31 14:21 ` Adam Thornton
2021-07-31 14:25 ` Adam Thornton
2021-07-31 15:45 ` Richard Salz
2021-07-31 16:03 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-31 16:06 ` Richard Salz
2021-07-31 16:21 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-31 16:17 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-31 16:30 ` Dan Cross
2021-07-31 15:56 ` Paul Winalski
2021-07-31 16:19 ` Dan Cross
2021-08-01 17:44 ` Chet Ramey
2021-08-01 21:53 ` Dan Cross
2021-08-01 23:21 ` Chet Ramey
2021-08-01 23:36 ` John Cowan
2021-08-01 23:49 ` Larry McVoy
2021-08-02 0:28 ` Larry McVoy
2021-08-01 23:58 ` Dan Cross
2021-08-02 0:29 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-08-02 0:13 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-08-02 0:18 ` John Cowan
2021-08-02 0:54 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-08-02 1:04 ` Dan Cross
2021-08-02 1:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-08-02 2:10 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-08-02 2:32 ` Bakul Shah
2021-08-02 17:33 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-09-28 17:46 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-09-28 18:10 ` Larry McVoy
2021-09-29 16:40 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-09-29 16:57 ` Larry McVoy
2021-09-30 17:31 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-09-29 23:10 ` Phil Budne
2021-08-02 17:37 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-08-02 18:52 ` Clem Cole
2021-08-02 20:59 ` John Cowan
2021-08-02 21:06 ` Al Kossow
2021-08-02 21:14 ` Clem Cole
2021-08-02 21:13 ` Clem Cole
2021-08-01 16:51 ` Michael Siegel
2021-08-01 17:31 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-07-31 16:41 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-31 17:41 ` John Cowan
2021-07-31 17:30 ` Anthony Martin
2021-07-31 17:46 ` John Cowan
2021-07-31 18:56 ` Michael Siegel
2021-07-31 19:41 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-31 21:30 ` Michael Siegel
2021-08-01 17:48 ` Chet Ramey
2021-08-01 19:23 ` Richard Salz
2021-08-01 23:26 ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2021-07-31 19:20 ` [TUHS] Systematic approach to command-line interfaces [ meta issues ] Jon Steinhart
2021-07-31 21:06 ` Richard Salz
2021-07-31 21:32 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-07-31 21:37 ` Richard Salz
2021-07-31 21:55 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-07-31 22:10 ` Warner Losh
2021-07-31 22:19 ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-31 22:20 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-07-31 23:26 ` Warner Losh
2021-07-31 23:41 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-07-31 22:04 ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-31 22:13 ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-31 22:14 ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-31 22:17 ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-31 22:16 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-07-31 22:20 ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-31 16:27 [TUHS] Systematic approach to command-line interfaces Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-07-31 16:47 Ron Young
2021-08-02 2:34 ` Jim Carpenter
2021-08-02 2:38 ` Ron Young
2021-08-02 2:42 Douglas McIlroy
2021-08-02 14:58 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-08-02 18:15 ` Adam Thornton
2021-08-02 18:24 ` Warner Losh
2021-08-02 20:55 ` John Cowan
2021-08-02 21:06 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-08-02 21:25 ` Dan Cross
2021-08-02 21:59 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-08-02 22:33 ` John Cowan
2021-08-03 0:21 ` Bakul Shah
2021-08-03 1:49 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-08-03 3:21 ` Adam Thornton
2021-08-03 3:27 ` Bakul Shah
2021-08-03 3:51 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-08-03 7:19 ` arnold
2021-08-03 23:12 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-08-04 15:04 ` Paul Winalski
2021-08-03 15:01 Douglas McIlroy
2021-08-03 17:13 ` Tom Lyon via TUHS
2021-08-11 18:11 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2021-08-11 21:24 ` Tom Lyon via TUHS
2021-08-03 19:12 Douglas McIlroy
2021-09-28 18:15 Noel Chiappa
2021-09-29 18:07 Noel Chiappa
2021-09-29 19:04 ` Dan Cross
2021-09-29 19:12 ` Larry McVoy
2021-09-30 11:41 Douglas McIlroy
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