brad@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Brad Appleton) (05/02/90)
Mark Routbort writes: >How can one/can one redirect options to specific parts of a pipe? >So that something like: alias ls 'ls | more' will work by sending >options + filenames to ls and not more? Since this looks like a C-Shell question (and someone else already gave a sh/ksh solution) I'll give a C-Shell answer. The following should do the trick: alias ls 'ls \!* | more' Remember that aliases work somewhat like simple text replacement so without the '\!*' any arguments given to the ls alias will be placed after the definition of the alias, on the command line. In other words, if I have : alias ls 'ls | more' then typing: ls -A is (without the alias) equivalent to typing: ls | more -A If I have the alias: alias ls 'ls \!* | more' then any arguments to the ls alias are put in place of the '\!*' so that typing: ls -A is (without the alias) equivalent to typing: ls -A | more If you really do want to send options to a different part of the pipe (which I would discourage given your example) then you should read up on using parentheses and/or curly braces ( "()"and "{}" ) in your shell. Hope this helps! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "And miles to go before I sleep." =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Brad Appleton Harris Computer Systems brad@ssd.csd.harris.com (305) 973-5360 Fort Lauderdale, FL USA {uunet,novavax}!hcx1!brad -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Disclaimer: I said it, not my company! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-