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Old 05-31-2004, 01:36 AM   #1
chii-chan
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alias two words or more


Hi. I think this question is kind of stupid. Usually when you set alias in your ~/.bashrc file, you make it consist of one word like this:

alias rm='rm -i'

But what if I want to make the alias to consist of two words or more. I've tried this:

alias remove\ junks='rm -i'
alias "remove junks"='rm -i'
alias 'remove junks'='rm -i'

And I want space between the words so that when I type something like:

Code:
remove junks junk.file
, it would do
Code:
rm -i junk.file
for me. Or there limitation for alias command? Thanks.
 
Old 05-31-2004, 01:46 AM   #2
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I'm not an alias expert but feel that wouldn't work out so well.. why not just write a basic shell script to do this, with options, etc?
 
Old 05-31-2004, 01:48 AM   #3
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rm is short for remove so your theory of making a two word alias does not make much sense to me. In fact you unaliasing in this case. And yes I beleive the built in command for alias does not accept two arguments:
alias [-p] [name[=value] ...]
 
Old 05-31-2004, 01:49 AM   #4
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Quote:
Originally posted by micxz
rm is short for remove so your theory of making a two word alias does not make much sense to me. In fact you unaliasing in this case. And yes I beleive the built in command for alias does not accept two arguments:
alias [-p] [name[=value] ...]
Also I would think typing rm -i junk.file would be easier to type than remove junks junk.file as well..
 
Old 05-31-2004, 01:54 AM   #5
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You could use `remove_junk` then hopefully when you type "rem"+TAB you should get what you want. Pretty silly if you ask me. But you may have some other function for this in mind'
 
Old 05-31-2004, 02:00 AM   #6
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Yeah! Just to make the command line to understand normal words. Even when I make a script 'remove junk', I cannot run it unless I put the '\' in between. I think I should make a script that accept command from echo -n instead. Thanks guy.
 
  


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