At work, almost every single time I run the prove utility, I type prove -l t/. I got tired of typing that. The following shell script in my bin/ seems silly, but it's really scratched an itch:
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
case "$1" in
"") /usr/local/bin/prove -l t/ ;; # no arguments
* ) /usr/local/bin/prove $* ;; # Pass 'em straight through
esac
Sorry, but I can't resist golfing^Wtinkering with shell scripts...
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
[ $# == 0 ] && set -- -l t/
exec/usr/local/bin/prove "$@"
$# is $#ARGV, more or less. Also, it's always better to use "$@" instead of $* because one day, you'll feed that sucker a filename with a space in. And it won't break with the former.
-Dom
Re:case
Ovid on 2006-12-10T20:07:23
Thanks for the tip about "$@"!