Idea for shell "translator" utility

SilversleevesX · 07-25-2010, 11:01 AM

Usability? Home: you use bash. Work, school, vacation, seminar: you're stuck using zsh or tcsh (or Drush in Drupal).

Function: Without giving errors, quietly cross-checks a non-shell command for its equivalent in the running shell and executes that command, properly-syntaxed.

Name: Well, as the word "imperative" in rudimentary linguistics is a synonym for "command," I thought of an acronym derived from the terms SHell Imperatives Translator. But this morning, I re-thought the lavatorial acronym. Considering it was a "container" of "hooks" that had the potential to operate much like a stripped-down cron or Ubuntu hook bundle, a more polite term for it would be "tacklebox".

BZT

unSpawn · 07-25-2010, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by SilversleevesX

you're stuck using zsh or tcsh

No I'm not.

Quote:

Originally Posted by SilversleevesX

Without giving errors, quietly cross-checks a non-shell command for its equivalent in the running shell and executes that command, properly-syntaxed.

Good luck! And do let us know when you've got a working prototype.

* BTW I see no questions anywhere so rather than post it in the /Programming forum maybe next time use your web log?

Sergei Steshenko · 07-25-2010, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by SilversleevesX

...you're stuck using zsh or tcsh ...

Huh ?

Code:

sergei@amdam2:~/junk> ~/AFSWD/install/bash-4.1/binsh/bash-4.1.generic_wrapper ldd -v ~/AFSWD/install/bash-4.1/bin/bash
        not a dynamic executable
sergei@amdam2:~/junk>
sergei@amdam2:~/junk> file ~/AFSWD/install/bash-4.1/bin/bash
/home/sergei/AFSWD/install/bash-4.1/bin/bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, statically linked, not stripped
sergei@amdam2:~/junk>

, i.e. just create a statically linked 'bash' and bring it with you. Put it into any directory and run it from there.