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From: anders@digre.uio.no (Anders Ellefsrud)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: bash bug report
Message-ID: <CMM.0.88.629573316.anders@digre.uio.no>
Date: 13 Dec 89 17:28:36 GMT
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> >I've been told by devout ksh users that it's missing autoload functions.
> 
> autoload() {
> 	echo $1 \(\) \{ echo . $2 2\>\&1 \; . $2 \} > /tmp/au.$$
> 	. /tmp/au.$$
> 	rm /tmp/au.$$
> }
> 

I see a few problems with that function. I think this is better:

    autoload() {
        eval `echo "$1" "() { args=\$@ ; . $2 ; set -- \$args; $1 \$@ }"`
    }


Note: I said BETTER, not PERFECT! It will not handle funny arguments like
'foo bar'.

Usage:

	autoload foo ~/lib/the_foo_function
	.
	.
	.
	foo bar

... works as expected, but 
	foo 'gaz onk' does not.


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