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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting simple shell - how to get a parameter typed in a shell script Post 11406 by brianb on Tuesday 4th of December 2001 08:18:13 PM
Old 12-04-2001
Question regular expressions and command-line arguments

As a follow-up question (that seems related):

I'm running .kshrc and want to script or alias the following:
ls -alF <i>regex</i> | more

I have not found how to pass an argument inside an alias
(e.g. alias dir='ls -alF $1 | more' does NOT work).

The following script 'dir' works:
#!/bin/ksh
ls -alF $1 | more

however, if I pass it an expression like '*.eva' it will only ls the first filename with the .eva extension (not ls all of the files with the .eva extension).

_Anyone_ who's read this far already has my sincere appreciation! If you can point me to man pages to help me solve this problem I'd appreciate it even more!
 

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script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME
script - make record of a terminal session SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [filename] DESCRIPTION
The script utility makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS. The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed. OPTIONS
The following option is supported: -a Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it. NOTES
script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) WARNINGS
script can pose a security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script. SunOS 5.11 30 Jan 2004 script(1)
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