On 12/4/06, Nicholas Burlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I love using fish, but it seems to be missing a vital feature. It doesn't > properly handle scripts that start with a colon (:) instead of a shebang > (#!). I have several scripts in use at my office that are designed to work > from Win32, Linux, Solaris, and HPUX, and they start with a colon. The bash, > tcsh, and cmd shells treat this as meaning the script should be interpreted > as an 'sh' script.
I must confess I've never heard of this feature before. Learn something every day I guess. Fish uses the execve call from libs to execute commands, so obviously this is not part of standard functionality. Could you explain why this is useful? > Could someone point me to the place in the code I need to modify to make > this work? The launch_process function in exec.c is the right place for this. If the call to execve fails, open the file and check if the first line is ':\n' and if so, do a little magic. Or perhaps the 'right place' would actually be to submit a patch to the glibc people? > Thanks, > Nick > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > Fish-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users -- Axel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
