At 1:00 PM -0400 10/25/05, 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. ... You said "when a user enters a command". Do you mean "bash" or "the terminal program that they type in" (gnome-terminal, usually)? Gnome-terminal has useful options. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
