From: Doug Kearns <dougkearns@gmail.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: executing foo.c
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 17:26:24 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050803072624.GE28161@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pdy9883062309a0bf161632e103@[192.168.1.2]>
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 11:38:39PM -0700, Dave Yost wrote:
> Hi.
>
> There should be a way in shells to say what happens if I try to run
> an executable file that has a filename extension belonging to some
> set. For example, a builtin variable like this:
>
> EXEC_SPECIAL=(/usr/local/bin/cg .c .java .cp)
>
> What this would mean is that if foo.c is executable and someone tries
> to execute it, do this:
> /usr/local/bin/cg foo.c
> Similarly for foo.java and foo.cp, or more if there are more
> extensions in the array.
>
> See http://Yost.com/computers/compileAndGo
>
> The above note about shells is at the end of the page.
>
> Comments?
I haven't had a look at the above page yet but would a suffix alias be
sufficient?
% alias -s c=/usr/local/bin/cg
% hello.c
Regards,
Doug
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