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- #
- # An almost ksh-compatible `autoload'. A function declared as `autoload' will
- # be read in from a file the same name as the function found by searching the
- # $FPATH (which works the same as $PATH), then that definition will be run.
- #
- # To do this without source support, we define a dummy function that, when
- # executed, will load the file (thereby re-defining the function), then
- # execute that newly-redefined function with the original arguments.
- #
- # It's not identical to ksh because ksh apparently does lazy evaluation
- # and looks for the file to load from only when the function is referenced.
- # This one requires that the file exist when the function is declared as
- # `autoload'.
- #
- # usage: autoload func [func...]
- #
- # The first cut of this was by Bill Trost, trost@reed.bitnet
- #
- # Chet Ramey
- # chet@ins.CWRU.Edu
-
- #
- # Declare a function ($1) to be autoloaded from a file ($2) when it is first
- # called. This defines a `temporary' function that will `.' the file
- # containg the real function definition, then execute that new definition with
- # the arguments given to this `fake' function. The autoload function defined
- # by the file and the file itself *must* be named identically.
- #
-
- aload()
- {
- eval $1 '() { . '$2' ; '$1' "$@" ; return $? }'
- }
-
- #
- # Search $FPATH for a file the same name as the function given as $1, and
- # autoload the function from that file. There is no default $FPATH.
- #
-
- autoload()
- {
- #
- # Save the list of functions; we're going to blow away the arguments
- # in a second. If any of the names contain white space, TFB.
- #
-
- local args="$*"
-
- #
- # This should, I think, list the functions marked as autoload and not
- # yet defined, but we don't have enough information to do that here.
- #
- if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
- echo "usage: autoload function [function...]"
- return 1
- fi
-
- #
- # If there is no $FPATH, there is no work to be done
- #
-
- if [ -z "$FPATH" ] ; then
- echo autoload: FPATH not set
- return 1
- fi
-
- #
- # This treats FPATH exactly like PATH: a null field anywhere in the
- # FPATH is treated the same as the current directory.
- #
- # The path splitting command is taken from Kernighan and Pike
- #
-
- fp=$(echo $FPATH | sed 's/^:/.:/
- s/::/:.:/g
- s/:$/:./
- s/:/ /g')
-
- for FUNC in $args ; do
- #
- # We're blowing away the arguments to autoload here...
- # We have to; there are no arrays.
- #
- set $fp
-
- while [ $# -ne 0 ] ; do
- if [ -f $1/$FUNC ] ; then
- break # found it!
- fi
- shift
- done
-
- if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
- echo "$FUNC: autoload function not found"
- continue
- fi
-
- # echo auto-loading $FUNC from $1/$FUNC
- aload $FUNC $1/$FUNC
- done
-
- return 0
- }
-