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Re: [Help-bash] feature request: source a script with executing anything


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] feature request: source a script with executing anything
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:47:52 -0400
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On 7/25/18 6:44 AM, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
> For example /usr/bin/xdg-open has some functions (search_desktop_file,
> get_key) that look fine that I don't want to copy/paste [1] [2] in my
> script.

This is a good argument for recommending that xdg-open use function
libraries, but I don't see a compelling argument for including this
functionality in bash.

Chet

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