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Re: A suggestion for the future version of Bash
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: A suggestion for the future version of Bash |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Dec 2000 16:35:26 -0500 |
> It would be good to have possibility to print something before each
> interactive command line execution. This can be done by adding the new shell
> variable BEFORECOMMAND with commands which should be executed before every
> user-entered command line.
Do you mean before each line of a possible multi-line command? If not,
I don't see why $PROMPT_COMMAND cannot be made to work for this.
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