Gregory's Server# #Guix trick borrowed from Nix folks: the comma shell function,
# fitting in a single toot, with comments.
#
# Run then given command via 'guix shell'.
function ,
{
pkg_ver="$(set -o pipefail; guix locate "$1" | grep /bin/ | head -1 | cut -f1)"
pkg="$(echo $pkg_ver | cut -d@ -f1)"
test -n "$pkg" && guix shell "$pkg" -- "$@"
}
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@civodul What could be nicer: “guix run supertuxkart” or “guix run objdump -T whatever” and do all the dance under the hood. Well, “run” or whatever other verb. :-) This way, it would “run” with any shell. @efraim @zimoun Dunno, I liked the idea of a one-character function name in this context. :-) This is where I saw it: @civodul Well, I’m not big fan of comma… bikeshed. ;-) That’s said, when you give a look at all the Rust… that’s more that just 3 lines of Bash. :-) Hence the opportunity for an extension.  @civodul I bet we'll use it :). It just feels a bit, ehrm, dirty. One thing it can be used for is setting up the shell environment after firing it up. Maybe useful for development services too in a guix.scm file. |
So you can type “, supertuxkart” or “, objdump -T whatever” in your shell and it will do the right thing!