Creating an alias (name=value pair) where the name has spaces.
 

Hi,

Can an alias (in the .bashrc file) has one or more spaces in the name part of the name=value pair?

For example,

alias ls -l="ls -lh"

If yes, how?

Thanks and regards.

I dont think what you asked can be done
however for what you intend in the example you can do a
alias ls=`ls -h`
ls -l would now be equal to ls -lh

another way of doing things is functions for example
for ex
unalias ls
function ls() {
if [ "$#" -gt 0 -a "$1" = "-l" ]; then
/bin/ls -h $*
else
/bin/ls $*
fi
}
or something like that

Thanks zeropash.