Noob request about alias.

teh · 2010-06-09 04:45:28

I've read the man and search (a lot) for options in alias, like -s, -d, -g...

So, any good manual please?

Last edited by teh (2010-06-09 04:48:23)

sand_man · 2010-06-09 05:06:33

I don't think you can do that with alias's but you can put functions in your bashrc which work the same way.
Take for instance, this:

start(){
  for arg in $*; do
    sudo /etc/rc.d/$arg stop
  done
}

teh · 2010-06-09 05:42:11

hmmm... This is what I'm talking about:

http://github.com/Barrucadu/home/blob/m … sh/aliases

I've got a hint reading commented lines: -g for Global and -s for Suffix. But still...

And this has the same options(¿?) parameters (¿?):

http://github.com/mikar/config/blob/master/.zshrc

tomk · 2010-06-09 05:50:08

You're using zsh, I presume?

Both of those examples are for zsh.

sand_man · 2010-06-09 06:41:22

Now I'm lost...

teh · 2010-06-09 07:17:39

Ok, nevermind... I've got it.

I didn't know that *sh lets you specify more than just a character or a string (without quotations marks) to set the alias...

Example:

alias -s pdf='zathura'

Then just type foo.pdf -s pdf and done...

So noob, sorry =P I thought those "options" was part of an alias or zsh functions.

Send this to /dev/zero please =P

Last edited by teh (2010-06-09 07:18:16)

Barrucadu · 2010-06-09 07:47:59

They are options for the alias:

alias -s pdf='zathura'
/path/to/file.pdf

…and zathura opens

Ramses de Norre · 2010-06-09 11:10:50

teh wrote:

alias -s pdf='zathura'
Then just type foo.pdf -s pdf and done...

Why do you type that last line? You should just execute

foo.pdf

and zathura should open it.

JohannesSM64 · 2010-06-13 14:13:59

-g means global (anywhere on cmd line) and -s means suffix (use this program when i type a file name with this extension). Both are zsh features, bash has neither. These are zsh's alias flags (generated with tab completion):

-L  -- print each alias in the form of calls to alias
-g  -- list or define global aliases
-m  -- print aliases matching specified pattern
-r  -- list or define regular aliases
-s  -- list or define suffix aliases

Last edited by JohannesSM64 (2010-06-13 14:15:59)

teh · 2010-06-13 16:21:30

¡Thank you JohannesSM64!

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