Jim Meyering wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 25 December 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>> Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>> "Daniel C. Bastos" wrote:
>>>>>> I always miss these two programs on every system I meet. argv0 is very
>>>>>> handy when dealing with programs that care about argv[0] and psfool is
>>>>>> essential when giving out passwords through the command line. I figure
>>>>>> these two should be in coreutils.
>>>>> perl -e 'exec { "real" } "fake", "arg1", "arg2"'
>>>> bash -c 'exec -a "$0" "$@"' real fake arg1 arg2
>>> That should of course be:
>>>
>>> bash -c 'exec -a "$0" "$@"' fake real arg1 arg2
>> perhaps a "contrib" subdir with small scripts like this ?
>
> I'd like to see them added to the list for the misc-utils
> project that people have proposed to create.
>
> Pádraig, are you still interested in doing that?
I've added those to the list.
Yes "misc-utils" is one of my new years resolutions :)
cheers,
Pádraig.
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