[Gnu-arch-users] Enhancements for aba.

[Jan Hudec]

Hello,

In trying to merge my old arch wrapper with aba, I have done some
changes to aba:

    * It can have commands and options spread over two locations. One is
      ~/.aba/ and the other is $abadir, where
      abadir=$(dirname $(readlink -f $0))
      (actualy readlink_f which is a recursive shell function -- realink
      -f is not portable). This should allow:
        * Linking directly from archive.
        * Keeping personal and public wrappers separated.
        * Only having most of aba once for several users (system-wide
          installation).
        (it's backwards compatible)
    * It always keeps proper word spliting of arguments. So arguments
      with spaces or other funny characters make it to the command
      intact. So it is ready when tla allows spaces in filenames.
    * Aliases can be reconfigured for another leading character by
      special alias aliaschar=<character> (^ is special in zsh)
    * Added a "getopts" helper, that can set variables from options, if
      more sofisticated commands need it (I have some such commands in
      my old wrapper and plan to port them).

The downside is that it grew a bit.

The changes can be found in:

Version: address@hidden/tlacontrib--bulb--1.2
Location: http://www.ucw.cz/~bulb/{archives}/pub-1

Comments are welcome.

Jan

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