Re: trapped in bash

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

On Dec 19, 12:32am, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
}
} I suppose you could write a command_not_found_handler() function that
} tried to reverse engineer _why_ the command wasn't found - with the
} obvious limitations, e.g., race conditions between the library's
} execution and the handler's.

I don't think there can be a race here because the handler won't be
invoked if the execve() hasn't already failed.

Something like this:

command_not_found_handler () {
  local attempt="$1"
  if [[ "$1" != /* && ( -o pathdirs || "$1
" != */* ) ]]
  then
    emulate zsh -c 'attempt=$^path/$1(N[1])'
  fi
  if [[ -f $attempt ]]
  then
    local hashbang
    read -u 0 -k 2 hashbang < "$attempt"
    case "$hashbang" in
      ('#!') print -u2 -- $1\: bad '#!' interpreter ;;
      (*) print -u2 failed to load $1 ;;
    esac
  else
    print -u2 -- $1\: no such file in \$PATH
  fi
  return 127
}


-- 
Barton E. Schaefer