Wrapper to simulate symlinks with executables on Windows platform by calling a batch script.
Create a batch file dir.cmd.
@echo off
"c:\windows\system32\dir.exe" %*Compile goc and rename goc.exe to dir.exe. Save dir.exe alongside dir.cmd.
Then you can remove c:\windows\system32 from the PATH and use the new directory where is your dir.exe file instead.
When you call dir.exe, it spawns dir.cmd by passing arguments and forwarding stdout and stderr pipes.
Because you can't spawn dir (without suffix) if you have only a dir.cmd or dir.bat file in the PATH. It's necessary to spawn dir.cmd explicitly and it can be a problem when you don't have the source code. Then with goc, it's possible to spawn with just dir.
Note that goc is just a very trivial and limited wrapper. For example, stdin is not forwarded.
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