Hi team,

You folks are helping me in learning Shell script. This is the problem I am facing. Currently I have an alias which will change for every host
$ cat ~sapadmin/.profile | grep myloc
alias myloc='cd /export/nfs1-34/`

I have my own .bashrc file which i will use and i cant load them so i tried to do some stuff in my file.. using xargs but am not able ... All i need is when i do that cat the alias should get executed.

cat ~sapadmin/.profile | grep myloc | xargs; ---No Luck;

Can some one please help me ... It can be done any ways no restriction of xargs ... that was my thought.

1. this looks like you've got a single quote (') at the start, then a backquote (`) at the end.
They should both be single quotes.
2. This
is unclear; please re-write differently

3. aliases aren't 'executed'; they are set into your env, so that when you type 'myloc', you get the associated cmd executed.

Can you clarify what you are trying to achieve?

Chris - this is want I want to do
I want to grep myloc from .progile then I should set my alias

How do u do that in one shot grep and set your alias

If you put it in your .bash_profile (assuming your shell is bash), then its set for you at login.
(similarly for .profile)

Check your shell

you can manually "import" settings from a file using source:

As said mine is different requirement
When I source by .bashrc file it should set the alias . Since alias myloc
Is different for each host so I have my .bashrc which is unique
So when I source .bashrc I should get the myloc info from .profile and
It should be set in .bashrc

Hope this understands my requirement

no, I'm sorry, I do not understand. Can you show us .bashrc? What is the difference?

Our default shell is ksh so we are using .profile and we set alias myloc in .profile on
Thousands of hosts. I like bash so I am planning to create my own .bashrc
Which will remain unique I.e get the values from .profile

So people will set alias myloc in .profile since I don want to edit my .bashrc
On each host I like to get that value from .profile and getting executed when I source .bashrc

How can I do it

you can create a new file in .bashrc (from .profile) containing what you need and source that file

I can't because we have 1223 systems so I want to have unique .bashrc
So I can pull to all hosts

you misunderstood
into .bashrc you can instert a small function or similar to create a temporary file containing what you need and also you can source that file

Just need your thoughts on how to execute the output after cat and grep

TMPFILENAME=whatever
cat or grep or sed or whatever > $TMPFILENAME
source $TMPFILENAME

But i am looking something to be on the fly instead writing everything into a tempfile.

Just asking ... cant we ask xarg to execute that alias command as soon as we get it with cat & grep ??

Any other options... ??

Can someone help me please