thomas@prosys.ai.mit.edu (Thomas Thyberg) (07/14/89)
Bash version 1.02
SUN 3/60 SUNOS3.5
gcc version 1.35
Hi.
There is something I really would like to be able to do in bash and that is
to write my alias definitions in my .bashrc something like this:
1:
alias \
'pd= pushd' \
'ud= popd' \
'back= cd $OLDPWD' \
etc...
or
2:
alias \
'pd =pushd' \
'ud =popd' \
'back =cd $OLDPWD' \
etc...
to make it more readable (I think it gets more readably anyway).
The problem is this;
The second version doesn't work and in the first the leading white space
in the value part of a definition ends up in the alias definition.
eg. bash$ alias pd
alias pd=" pushd"
If you allow 1 than I think that could be fixed by stripping the leading
spaces of 'value' before calling add_alias in alias_builtin.
But I would prefer 2, which probably needs more work.
If this isn't the way of defining ones aliases, please tell me how!
BTW,
Thanks for doing bash! The best shell I have ever used.
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 13:07:19 +0200
From: thomas@prosys.ai.mit.edu (Thomas Thyberg)
Bash version 1.02
SUN 3/60 SUNOS3.5
gcc version 1.35
Hi.
There is something I really would like to be able to do in bash and that is
to write my alias definitions in my .bashrc something like this:
1:
alias \
'pd= pushd' \
'ud= popd' \
'back= cd $OLDPWD' \
etc...
or
2:
alias \
'pd =pushd' \
'ud =popd' \
'back =cd $OLDPWD' \
etc...
to make it more readable (I think it gets more readably anyway).
Gee, you might want to do something like this:
function alias () {
local name=$1
shift
local value="$*"
if [ "$name" = "" ]; then
builtin alias
elif [ "$value" = "" ]; then
builtin alias $name
else
builtin alias $1="$value"
}
Now you can type:
alias ls ls -F
alias - cd ~-
Brian