Re: argve0, psfool

[Jim Meyering]

Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 December 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>> > 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
>>
>> That should of course be:
>>
>> bash -c 'exec -a "$0" "$@"' fake real arg1 arg2
>
> perhaps a "contrib" subdir with small scripts like this ?

I'd like to see them added to the list for the misc-utils
project that people have proposed to create.

Pádraig, are you still interested in doing that?