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Re: argve0, psfool


From: Brian Dessent
Subject: Re: argve0, psfool
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:44:11 -0800

"Daniel C. Bastos" wrote:

> I always miss these two programs on every system I meet. argv0 is very
> handy when dealing with programs that care about argv[0] and psfool is
> essential when giving out passwords through the command line. I figure
> these two should be in coreutils.

perl -e 'exec { "real" } "fake", "arg1", "arg2"'

As an observer of this list I have noted that coreutils maintainers are
highly reticent to add new commands to coreutils that are trivially
implemented with existing standard commands.

Brian




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