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From: dat@AMES-NAS.ARPA (David A. Tristram)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: re: shell filter
Message-ID: <1839@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 17:23:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 17:23:13 1985
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>     I am trying to write a filter for the shell.  The  idea
>is  to  trap  commands  and carry out certain actions before
>passing a possibly modified command on to the  shell.   This
>seemingly simple task is proving rather difficult.

Your idea for using ptty's seems sound.  I have done much the same
using named pipes on sysV.  For the filter, I would try it using m4,
or awk if your processing is complicated.  There are only a couple
cases where you would have to turn off pre-processing to send raw
data to a program, such as a hereis (<<) document or quoted strings.
In awk, you could implement that by setting a flag when those
structures are encountered.

Tristram

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