Re: suffix alias

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a suffix alias "alias -s py=python". Now I can execute Python 
> scripts by name that don't have a "she-bang" and aren't executable. 
> That's great.
> 
> But now I noticed that I cannot execute Python scripts anymore that 
> are placed in my path (/usr/bin for example) because zsh doesn't 
> search the path anymore for the suffix alias.
> 
> Is there a solution for this problem?

exec-py () {
        local -a files
        files=(${^path}/$1(N))
        (( ${#files} )) && set -- $files[1] "${(@)argv[2,-1]}"
        python "$@"
}
alias -s py=exec-py

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