okay how do i make an alias that has a space in it?
for most of my other ones i've simply done within my ~/.bash_profile
alias `ls`='ls -laF'
but with
alias `sudo su`='sh hello.sh'
I'm unable to make it work
in addition i was wondering how i could allow the user to type in... (1 Reply)
Hi-
I am newish to the mac osx unix interface. I want to set up top so that it always displays the username. I can use this command to do this:
top -ocpu -P ' PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE USER' -p '$aaaa ^bbbbbbbbb $cccc $wwwwwww $ee... (1 Reply)
Hi folks,
I'm trying to define the following command as alias in .cshrc file:
ls -ltr | grep ^d | awk '{print $9}' | xargs du -hs
I defined it as the following:
alias nirdirs '`ls -ltr | grep "^d" | awk "{print \\$9}" | xargs du -hs`'
I've got the following error when I've run the alias:... (7 Replies)
Hi all, well i am configuring backuppc for awhile, anyway my current problem is, i set a smarthost, configured the mail to use our ISP smtp server, and its working successfully thanks to ALLAH, now i want to set an alias for mails( it was working when it was using the local smtp server), so the... (0 Replies)
Hi to all,
I'm facing some problems when adding an alias like:
#alias list="ls -al | awk '{ print $1, $2, $3, $4, (($5/1048576))"\t", $6, $7, $8, $9 }'"
and when I enter:
#list
I get:
Syntax Error The source line is 1.
The error context is
{ print >>> , <<<
awk:... (3 Replies)
If one:
$ find -name 'some expression' -type f > newfile
and then subsequently wants to create an alias file from each pathname the find command retrieved and the > placed within 'newfile', how would one do this? Ideally, the newly created alias files would all be in one directory.
I am... (3 Replies)
hi,
we have eth1; in the beginning it was proposed to create from eth1, eth1.2500 and eth1.240. It did not worked cause vlan 1.2500 was not tagged in the switch.
so they decided to leave eth1 like a physical interface with eth1.2500 config (removel vlan tag) and create eth1.240
but it did... (0 Replies)
Please forgive me if this is too stupid a question as I am fairly new to scripting.
I have an alias in my .profile (ksh) like this:
alias ff='find . -name $1'
The idea is to find all files in current dir and all subdir with the name specified in the param passed. So, I issue the command:... (8 Replies)
Hi Guru's,
I am creating alias for db instance running on a server through script, am able to create them based on /etc/oratab entries and can use successfully with the below script.
#!/bin/bash
SCRIPT_PATH=${HOME}/scripts/db/script... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
alias
alias(4) File Formats alias(4)NAME
alias - alias table file of encoding names
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/iconv/alias
DESCRIPTION
This file contains the alias table of encoding names for iconv_open(3C).
The format of the alias table is as follows:
"%s %s
", <variant encoding name>, <canonical encoding name>
The string specified for the variant encoding name is case-insensitive. A line beginning with '#' is treated as a comment.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Evolving |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO iconv(3C), iconv_close(3C), iconv_open(3C), attributes(5)SunOS 5.11 2 Oct 2001 alias(4)