Henk Langeveld wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > Is there any default location for loadable shell functions used by > > ksh/bash/zsh/etc. ? AFAIK these shells all support loadable functions > > (more or less) but do not seem to provide a "default" location similar > > to /usr/include/ (for system headers) for for functions... or is/was > > there something like that ? > > .../include is for interfaces. I'd opt for .../lib, which is where all > code goes that is not invoked from the command line.
Mhhh... but these are no full scripts, these are script fragments which are "sourced" (or better: "included") at script runtime. At least in Solaris /usr/include/ contains Fortran includes and even some plugin hackery for FireFox... > /usr/lib/sh/... ? What about: - /usr/lib/shell/ as basename - /usr/lib/shell/posix/ for POSIX shell functions and script fragments - /usr/lib/shell/ksh/ for ksh93 shell functions and script fragments - /usr/lib/shell/zsh/ for zsh shell functions and script fragments - /usr/lib/shell/csh/ for csh shell functions and script fragments etc. ...and a mandatory subdir layout of similar to "com/kornshell/math/" for math functions from kornshell.com (or com/sun/on/misc/ for "misc" shell functions from sun.com for OS/Net, e.g. /usr/lib/shell/ksh/com/sun/misc/etc_profile_functions.sh # would contain functions used by /etc/profile on demand). That would avoid possible clashes between institutions/vendors if they want to deploy their own shell function libraries. ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
