Matan Nassau

Remove the braces, remove the parens, remove the trailing `| STDOUT`, ... just a little further and you'll have re-written Bash. :)

Maybe the solution is not to have your own REPL, but to hook up to bash command execution? I've never done that, I wonder if that's possible. Is [this](http://superuser.com/questions/175799/does-bash-have-a-hook-that-is-run-before-executing-a-command) interesting?

rlwrap won't help. What I meant is, you want to stay in the user's environment, in the user's bash prompt. This way, all the user's settings are there -- including...