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In article <9208061446.AA24943.SM@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu> chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) writes:
>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.

   My version is also, IMHO, more correct in that it does the "lazy"
evaluation your implementation lacks.  The point of autoload is to be
relatively inexpensive until you actually try to run the command.  Your
version is always expensive because it looks for the source file when you
call autoload. 

   I also have a version of "load" and a require/provide set of functions
which use FPATH.   In fact, "load" is just a "source" that uses FPATH
instead of PATH, the way "source" should have been implemented in the first
place (though this isn't bash's fault.  Blame it on the standards).