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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to make a command same as PICO in linux but with comments Post 302502715 by Corona688 on Tuesday 8th of March 2011 04:59:19 PM

03-08-2011

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I'd avoid renaming pico or anything. If you really want to override pico itself, you could make it an alias like alias pico=/usr/local/sbin/picoc.sh But it sounds like he wants to just type it as picoc.

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# picoc.sh

for FILE in "$@"
do
        # Don't mangle files that already exist
        [ -e "$FILE" ] && continue

        cat <<EOF > "$FILE"
#==================================
#Script Name:
#By:
#Date:
#Purpose:
#:Command Line:
#==================================== 
EOF
done

exec pico "$@"

It goes through the list of arguments "$@", and for each file that doesn't exist, dumps the header into it.

This will cause some difference from normal pico behavior: It will create brand new files whether the pico user saves them or not. And it won't support commandline switches properly. To do that you'd have to brute-force parse each parameter one by one and decide what it means and whether it's a file the hard way -- by exacting the same as pico.

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