how can i recover the command line used to launch a script from inside itself (up to a difference in quote types)?
e.g. if the command is $ ./myscript foo "bar" 'baz' "quux quuux" 'fred barney' wilma i'd like to be able to print, at a bare minimum, foo bar baz 'quux quuux' 'fred barney' wilma if i set -x and print "$@", i can see the quotes i'm looking for in the trace, but i can't figure out how to get them into the regular output $ cat ./myscript cat ./myscript #!/Users/adavies/src/ksh93/arch/darwin.i386/bin/ksh -eux print "$@" $ /Users/adavies/src/ksh93/arch/darwin.i386/bin/ksh --version /Users/adavies/src/ksh93/arch/darwin.i386/bin/ksh --version version sh (AT&T Research) 93u 2011-02-08 $ ./myscript foo "bar" 'baz' "quux quuux" 'fred barney' wilma ./myscript foo "bar" 'baz' "quux quuux" 'fred barney' wilma + print foo bar baz 'quux quuux' 'fred barney' wilma foo bar baz quux quuux fred barney wilma $ basically i'm looking for a way to include custom debug/verbose output in wrappers e.g. $ doitbetter myscript foo "bar" 'baz' "quux quuux" 'fred barney' wilma should be able to say doitbetter: doing `myscript foo "bar" 'baz' "quux quuux" 'fred barney' wilma' better! if i put it in verbose mode -- Aaron Davies [email protected] _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
