ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Jay Barrett) (04/24/89)
I have found a small bug with AShell aliases. Consider the following command: info | sort case This does a case-sensitive sort of the info command. Now make it an alias (the asterisk is the escape character): alias is info *| sort case This works as expected when you type "is". HOWEVER, now try: is | more You get an error message from sort saying "Can't open case|". Note that the command "info | sort case | more" DOES work, but this (supposedly) equivalent alias does not. The solution: add a space character to the end of the line when defining the alias: alias is info *| sort case<spacechar> This phenomenon does NOT occur when the second command (sort, in this case) does not have an argument. For example: alias is info *| sort is | more works fine. Another problem (maybe not solvable) is that the commands: info | sort info |sort both work, but the command: info|sort does not. Yes, I realize someone might actually invent a file called "info|sort", but it would be nice if AShell would know that I want a pipe here! -- # Dan Barrett barrett@cs.jhu.edu (128.220.13.4) ARPANET # # ins_adjb@jhuvms.bitnet BITNET # # ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP UUCP (unreliable) # # Dept. of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 #
franks@ritcsh.UUCP (Francis Shea) (04/26/89)
What about dir opt a | search STDIN (filename)
I believe this is the systax. This workd but if you have
dir opt a aliased as da or something of the like:
da | search STDIN (filename) ....doesnt work.
whatsa matta????
am i doing something wrong???
thanks in advance..
frank shea
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Rochester Institute of Technology