RE: Using GDB as a Python interpreter

On Saturday, July 1, 2023 10:53 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I want to run a Python script with GDB, from the shell command line,
> without having to create two files.
> 
> I came up with the hack included below, but it's not particularly nice.
> The downside is that the script file name must end in “.py”, which would
> not allow to install the script in /usr/bin for most distributions.  I
> don't see a way to override that.

Based on this comment, I assume you have write access to /usr.
Would you then consider wrapping your script in a Python function
and then installing it in GDB's data directory
(e.g. /usr/share/gdb/python/gdb/function/)?  The file would be loaded
automatically by GDB at startup.  You can then invoke the Python function
with a single-line GDB command.

-Baris

 
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