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From: trost@reed.bitnet (Bill Trost)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: bash bug report
Message-ID: <13693@reed.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 89 22:54:12 GMT
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>I've been told by devout ksh users that it's missing autoload functions.

Hah, you friends just don't know how to write ksh.  I did the same
thing with bash with a few minutes playing.  Presumably, the ksh
mechanism is equivalent.

Anyone know how to do this without a tmp file? ". <<" doesn't work.

autoload() {
	echo $1 \(\) \{ echo . $2 2\>\&1 \; . $2 \} > /tmp/au.$$
	. /tmp/au.$$
	rm /tmp/au.$$
}

Sample use (spam should be defined in ~/spam):

bash% autoload spam ~/spam
bash% type spam
spam is a function
spam() { echo . /u/trost/spam 2>&1 ; . /u/trost/spam }
bash% spam
. /u/trost/spam
/u/trost/spam: No such file or directory


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Bill Trost
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