From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
Cc: Zach Riggle <zachriggle@gmail.com>, Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Command wrappers in $PATH, and re-executing the "correct" value
Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 09:20:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3Rz2Sqa+ZczcE1cxJGm0Yew4OskHJ+fxwGj=hTWxHc8sQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN=4vMoumEB6iUramyMQvn0b6ApMgXjGsNd4eH0zuX_eFpAHFA@mail.gmail.com>
On 5/21/22, Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 8:30 AM Zach Riggle <zachriggle@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I find that very frequently I write a wrapper for some CLI tool, say
>> "foobar".
>>
>> I have a wrapper script ~/bin/foobar, which will be invoked for the
>> command "foobar". What my wrapper script does is immaterial, but
>> it eventually executes the /usr/local/bin/foobar with some set of
>> arguments.
>
> You can try this:
>
> #!/usr/bin/zsh
> #
> # usage: next-command <command> [arg]..
>
> path=(${path:#${commands[$1]:h}}) "$@"
I'm using this in mine (wrapper script of same name as target binary),
path[(R)$0:h]=() exec $0:t "$@"
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-21 7:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-21 6:28 Zach Riggle
2022-05-21 7:12 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-05-21 7:20 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2022-05-21 7:31 ` Roman Perepelitsa
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