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Re: argve0, psfool


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: argve0, psfool
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:39:27 +0100
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Brian Dessent <address@hidden> writes:

> "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"'

bash -c 'exec -a "$0" "$@"' real fake arg1 arg2

Andreas.

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