From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Jan 15 00:54:40 2004
Subject: Re: alias-like function?
From: Avraham Rosenberg <avrahamr at weizmann dot ac dot il>
To: Geraint Paul Bevan <g dot bevan at mech dot gla dot ac dot uk>
cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Hauberg?= <soren at hauberg dot org>,    help-octave <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:53:52 +0200 (IST)

I read your mail and thought: what I nice trick.
But when I tried it, octave refused to behave. It complained instead of
"octlc undefined near line 4 column 1"
octave 2.1.50 on debian 3.0r1
1028~> EXEC_PATH
EXEC_PATH =
/home/avraham/matcompat/bin::/home/avraham/scripts:/usr/local/MuPaD_200/share/bin:/home/avraham/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games

The script octlc -a copy of the one you posted is in 
/home/avraham/matcompat/bin and it is executable.
Moreover, while the binary files in the path are recognized by octave,
it balks at all my scripts (starting with the magic #!/bin/sh
sequence).
Any suggestions ?
Thanks, Avraham

 On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Geraint Paul Bevan wrote:

> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:13:34 +0000
> From: Geraint Paul Bevan <g dot bevan at mech dot gla dot ac dot uk>
> To: "[ISO-8859-1] Søren Hauberg" <soren at hauberg dot org>
> Cc: help-octave <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
> Subject: Re: alias-like function?
> Resent-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:06:13 -0600
> Resent-From: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
> 
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> Søren Hauberg wrote:
> | Hi all,
> | I'm using octave 2.1.50 on linux.
> | I'm looking for something like the shell command "alias" for octave. I
> | would like to have color output when typing ls. I can achive this by
> | typing "ls --color" but I don't want to do this all the time. I could
> | define a function
> | function ls_tmp(), ls --color, end;
> | but then I wouldn't be able to type "ls" I would have to type "ls_tmp"
> | (or what ever the function would be called).
> | So is there an alias-like command for octave?
> |
> | Soren
> |
> 
> I don't think is possible to overload builtin functions in Octave.
> However, there is a very ugly workaround you could use. If you look at
> "help ls" in Octave, it tells you that "ls" uses the system command.
> Therefore you can use a script to call the real 'ls' with whatever
> options you want.
> 
> /usr/local/bin/ls:
> #! /bin/sh
> exec /bin/ls --color
> 
> Remember to make the script executable (chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ls)
> 
> 
> - --
> Geraint Bevan
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geraint.bevan
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