Re: feature request: file_not_found_handle()

[Roman Rakus]

You are badly using features of bash. Write a script which will do 
things for you, or use any other language/shell.

Please, accept this response as a suggestion.

command_not_found_handle is designed to do other things than you are 
expecting.


RR

On 08/19/2013 10:29 PM, Andreas Gregor Frank wrote:
> Hi Chet,
>
> sorry, i thought you talk about the bash code.
> I didn't want to show my own usecase but now i have to ;-):
> I have a File class and can construct a File "object" for example:
> File anObjectName /etc/passwd
> and then i can do
> e.g. anObjectName.getInode (this already works with
> command_not_found_handle() )
> But if i do a:
> File /etc/passwd /etc/passwd
> and then
> /etc/passwd.getInode (i think it would be nice if the normal files in a
> filesystem could be treated like objects)
> then there is nothing that triggers the command_not_found_handle() to split
> "object" and method...
> So at the moment slashes are forbidden in object names in my fun project.
>
> Now you know why your bash example for ckexec() isn't a solution for me.
>
> bye
> Andreas
>
>
> 2013/8/19 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
>
> > On 8/19/13 6:57 AM, Andreas Gregor Frank wrote:
> > > Hi Chet,
> > >
> > > I have no idea if there is "enough" demand, but i think there will be
> > some
> > > ideas to use this feature...
> > > I still think it is a question of consistency to be able to handle a "No
> > > such file or directory event", if i can do this with a "command not found
> > > event" (independent of the command_not_found_handle history).
> > >
> > > You say you can easily test whether or not if the file in the pathname
> > exists.
> >
> > That is not what I said.  I said that you, the script writer, can check
> > whether or not a filename containing a slash is executable before
> > attempting to execute it.  Maybe a function something like this (untested):
> >
> > ckexec()
> > {
> >          case "$1" in
> >          */*)    ;;
> >          *)      "$@"  ; return $? ;;
> >          esac
> >
> >          if [ -x "$1" ]; then
> >                  "$@"
> >          else
> >                  other-prog "$@"
> >          fi
> > }
> >
> >
> > Chet
> > --
> > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
> >                   ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> > Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu
> > http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/