> On 03/09/2024 10:38 +02 Страхиња Радић <s...@strahinja.org> wrote:
> 
>  
> Дана 24/09/03 12:47PM, meisne...@mailbox.org написа:
> > I need to use 'clang-format' program to format some code and I found 
> > a package which contains it (llvm-17.0.6p5). However, after 
> > installation, the program executable is named 'clang-format-17' 
> > instead of 'clang-format'. [...]
> 
> Personally, I wrote this script[1] helper:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /usr/bin/env PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin \
>       "$( (   commands=$(find /usr/bin /usr/local/bin \
>               -name "${0##*/}"'-[0-9][0-9]' -print)
>               [ -n "$commands" ] ||
>                       commands=$(printf "%s" "${0##*/}")
>               printf "%s\n" "$commands"
>          ) | sort -Vr | sed 1q )" $(printf "%s" "$*" |
>               tr -d '\\\n`;$()')
> 
> the way it works is that I have a ~/bin directory added to my path, and 
> inside of it I symlink this script to ~/bin/clang-format, 
> ~/bin/scan-build, ~/bin/scan-view etc. The script uses zeroth argument 
> to determine which program to run. The "version" (the part after "-" in 
> the regular program name, eg. "17" for clang-format-17) will be the 
> largest version according to version sort (`sort -V`).
> 
> 
> [1]: https://git.sr.ht/~strahinja/dotfiles/tree/master/item/bin/llvm-find

This is helpful, thank you for your script.

Regards,
meisner43

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