On Tuesday 25 October 2005 01:00 pm, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > I want to do some shell trickery so that when a user enters a command like: > > ls -l > > the command is forwarded to another program as an argument. That is, > what actually gets executed is: > > myprog "ls -l" > > Is there a way to do that? Basically I want to use bash as transparent > front end for another program (actually a command parser for some custom > hardware), while keeping the handy editing and history abilities of bash. > > Any suggestions (other than writing my own stripped down and customized > shell, which I know is an option)? I think what yo want to do would be a command alias. Generally, these are setup in either the /etc/profile or in the individual users .bash_profile
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