pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Scott) (11/17/90)
I would like to be able to execute an alias that equates to a sequence of commands, e.g. "a; b; c; d" so that typing ^C while a is executing causes execution to proceed to b, instead of terminating the whole sequence. I'd also like to revert to the normal behavior upon completing the command sequence. Any ideas? -- This is news. This is your | Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech brain on news. Any questions? | (pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov)
news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu (11/17/90)
In article <1990Nov16.180822.1843@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov writes: >I would like to be able to execute an alias that equates >to a sequence of commands, e.g. "a; b; c; d" so that >typing ^C while a is executing causes execution to proceed >to b, instead of terminating the whole sequence. I'd also >like to revert to the normal behavior upon completing the >command sequence. Any ideas? Well, in bash or ksh you could do alias abcd="a ; b ; c ; d" Here's what I get with bash. thor$ abcd this is a ^Cthis is b ^Cthis is c ^Cthis is d ^Cthor$ Where a, b, c, and d are all links to the same shell script: echo this is ${0##*/} sleep 5 Chet -- Chet Ramey ``I die, Horatio'' Network Services Group, Case Western Reserve University chet@ins.CWRU.Edu My opinions are just those, and mine alone.