Re: idea: statically-linked "busy-bash"

[Richard Neill]

Andreas Schwab wrote:

> > What I'm suggesting is to experimentally build a version of bash which has
> > mv/cp/ls/stat/grep/....  all built in.
>
> This is possible without rebuilding bash, see the documentation of the
> `enable' builtin.  There are already a few examples in the bash
> distribution under examples/loadables.

Thanks - that's interesting to know.

However, most of the examples seem to be cut-down functions in some way 
- I can see that becoming incompatible/non-portable.

What I was contemplating is to build in most of the actual gnu utils 
with the aim of making eg the builtin "grep" functionally identical to 
/bin/grep.

Then I could make a system-wide change, replacing the regular bash shell 
with the fat-bash, and still have everything work...


Richard