Getting Full Command Line with Bash

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Preface

Sometimes you need the input exactly as written - for example if you want to be able to tell the difference between bar and b"a"r.

The following is a workaround/hack to retrieve the full command that executed your script.

Step 1

Rename your script to add a leading underscore to it. For example, foo becomes _foo.

Step 2

Create an alias in your ~/.bash_rc or /etc/profile replacing %NAME% with the name of your script:

alias %NAME%='function _pass(){ echo `history 1` | grep -o '%NAME%.*' | _%NAME%; }; _pass'

Example:

alias foo='function _pass(){ echo `history 1` | grep -o 'foo.*' | _foo; }; _pass'

Now your script receives the whole command line that it was called from!