editing bash to auto activate some options?

kintaroe · 10-02-2004, 01:56 PM

Hi, just a short question, say everytime i type

btdownloadcurses.py <filename>

i want linux to automatically add some options for me without me actually typing it out

btdownloadcurses.py --ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx --minport xxx --maxport xxx <filename>

how do i go about doing this?

mirradric · 10-02-2004, 02:07 PM

aliases are what you need.

Code:

alias aliasname="command opt1 opt2"

After that aliasname will be expended by bash to what's on the left.

eg.

Code:

alias ls="ls -l"

will have ls expanded to ls -l

You might want to add it to your .bash_profile for perment effect.