> But if the shared library is installed, you can > instead use your own line-buffer function: > > line-buffer() > { > LD_PRELOAD=/t/linebuf.so "$@" > } > > but that doesn't expand the command name when it's an alias or function.
It actually works for functions. To support aliases, you can do preload() { local so cmd so=$1 cmd=$2 shift 2 case x`type -t "$cmd"` in xalias) eval LD_PRELOAD=\$so $cmd \"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ;; *) LD_PRELOAD=$so "$cmd" "$@" ;; esac } alias line-buffer='preload /t/linebuf.so' Paolo