On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 13:00 -0400, 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.
Yes. Check this ls capturing for hiding some file (grep -v filters
pattern):
[rodolfoap] /home/rodolfoap/test > ls
test_one test_three test_two
[rodolfoap] /home/rodolfoap/test > function ls() { /bin/ls|grep -v two; }
[rodolfoap] /home/rodolfoap/test > ls
test_one
test_three
[rodolfoap] /home/rodolfoap/test >
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