executing foo.c

executing foo.c

[Dave Yost]

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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?

Dave

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Re: executing foo.c

[Doug Kearns]

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