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not smart enough to find an alias 'how-to'

Anyone know of one I might peruse. Tried man alias, info alias, I googled and repeatedly found IP alias but isn't there more to it than that? Thanks for any direction.

man 1 bash

search for alias (ie. '\alias')

(although there's not much to 'em)
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maybe instead tell us what you're trying to do. (if anything in particular)

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Originally posted by cuckoopint
maybe instead tell us what you're trying to do. (if anything in particular)

Actually I was wondering if I could use alias so that I could simply type 'burnw' for example and have that command execute this:
cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 -audio track*.wav

and

'burnm' = cdrecord -v dev=0,0 -audio track*mp3

After looking at /etc/aliases I'm not so sure that 'alias' does what I thought it did. I'm reading the BASH man page but OMG it's a monster. Maybe I need to create scritps instead?

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Actually I was wondering if I could use alias so that I could simply type 'burnw' for example and have that command execute this:
cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 -audio track*.wav

edit your ~/.bashrc (unless you want it global: /etc/profile)

something like:

Code:

alias burnw='cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 -audio track*.wav'

this won't work right away. you have to either login again, or execute

Code:

source ~/.bashrc

same thing for burnm
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btw, I recommend changing that 'track*.wav' to something a little more permanent, if this is only referring to one directory (ie. ~/wav/track*.wav) This helps since you can execute the alias from any directory. OTOH, track*.wav would make it universal to all directories you may be working with. Your call.
; )

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Originally posted by cuckoopint
btw, I recommend changing that 'track*.wav' to something a little more permanent, if this is only referring to one directory (ie. ~/wav/track*.wav) This helps since you can execute the alias from any directory. OTOH, track*.wav would make it universal to all directories you may be working with. Your call.
; )

Here's the whole story- I have a 166Mhz w/ 80M -15G SCSI & SCSI cdrw. I want to make a network cdburning machine. Preferrably each user could ssh in, , copy whatever files you want (data, audio, video) into /users/own/dir then cd /users/own/dir and do a burnw. BUT I think I understand what you mean. You could change it so that you could execute it from any directory AND I could just burn everything in the directory instead of specifying .wav .mp3 etc. Oh and it just now hit me- I could really simplify copying files to /users/own/dir too!

I have windows users on the network who are scared of Linux. I suppose this is my way of forcing them to use it! heh heh :P

Thanks for the quick how-to cuckoopint. Am I to understand that I could make hundreds, nay thousands of aliases this way?? bwaahaaha ; ) what fun I'll have.