Re: bash and FPATH

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From: Chet Ramey
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 06:46

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> Does bash have the same functionality supported by ksh88's FPATH?  As far as
> I could see bash does not support FPATH.  Did anyone write such an
> implementation for bash?  Does anyone know if it is planned for future
> releases of bash?  Any ideas what to do in the mean time? (no, sourcing all
> of the files in the FPATH will not do -- it defies the purpose of FPATH.)

There's a shell script implementation of `autoload' (which is what ksh
uses FPATH for) as part of the bash-1.12 distribution in
.../examples/functions/autoload.  I wrote this one, based on something
from Bill Trost.

Noah Friedman also has something similar, with require/provide.  He's
posted it several times.

--
``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.''
	-- Arthur Schlesinger

Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu

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