How to create multiple word alias - Shell Programming and Scripting

cfajohnson · #3 (**permalink**) 05-27-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by glamo_2312

Hi,

I have created a script which will move the file passed as $1 to a particular folder.

In the .profile of my unix user i have created an alias as

alias rm="$HOME/script"

Now i want that to do

alias rm="$HOME/script"

alias \rm="$HOME/script"

alias \rm -rf ="$HOME/script"

alias rm -rf ="$HOME/script"

It does not take rm -rf as ab alias.
How to do this.

Use functions, not aliases.

Code:

unalias rm
rm()
{
  if [ "$1" = "-rf" ]
  then
    shift
    $HOME/script "$@"
  else
    command rm "$@"
  fi
}