simplifying wine

Four · 12-28-2005, 11:04 AM

I have installed a program using wine and want to run like 'wine programname' instead of 'wine c:/program files/program/programname'. How may I set it up this way?

thank you!

WindowBreaker · 12-28-2005, 01:12 PM

I'd just add a function to do it in one of your startup scripts (ie: ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc) like so:

wine-progname() {
wine "c:/program files/program/programname"
}

Then to run it, just type in the function name as the command:
wine-progname

To learn more about functions, do:
man bash (great reading)

Hope this helps you

stress_junkie · 12-28-2005, 02:50 PM

I think I'd make an alias. You can put this in your .bashrc file:

alias winamp="wine c:/program files/program/winamp"

This example is for winamp.

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WindowBreaker · 12-28-2005, 03:09 PM

stress_junkie:
That alias will not work, because of the space in the argument's path (program files).

To test it:

Code:

mkdir -p "/tmp/program files"
echo "testing" > "/tmp/program files/file"
alias catt="cat /tmp/program files/file"
catt
cat: /tmp/program: No such file or directory
cat: files/file: No such file or directory

You would have to escape the space by either:

Code:

alias catt="cat '/tmp/program files/file'"

or

Code:

alias catt="cat /tmp/program\ files/file"

Either the alias or the function will get the job done.

Four · 12-28-2005, 03:45 PM

Where is the ".bashrc" file. I checked ~/.bashrc its not there so I have created it and added the alias. However it doesn't apear to work yet. Do I need a restart? if so is there a way to do it without restarting?

I have Slackware 10.1

Thank you!

WindowBreaker · 12-28-2005, 04:06 PM

Four:
~/.bashrc may not have existed yet, in which case you were right to create it. What you can do is add a line to ~/.bash_profile that will run the ~/.bashrc file, as such:

Code:

.  ~/.bashrc

or

Code:

source ~/.bashrc

Since you're sourcing the file, it's not required that it have a "#!/bash/sh" as it's first line. Sourcing (either 'source' or a period '.') means the contents of the file a put in the calling script. It's kind of like an Include line in programming.

Anyways, add the line above to your ~/.bash_profile, and log out and back in. Then it should be working for you.

If you don't want to logout and back in, just source it from a terminal yourself:

Code:

.  ~/.bashrc

And it should be working.

stress_junkie · 12-28-2005, 06:02 PM

WindowBreaker,
I didn't think the alias syntax through. Thanks for the observation and the correction. I was thinking in terms of the "/program files/" being an argument to the wine executable. I forgot that bash would process it. Next time I'll test a suggestion before writing.