How do you create an Alias that excepts command line arguments.
I am trying to move files from one directory to another all within the Alias command.
Please Help! (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to find some files on a directory( /usr/users/xyz/log) which is an alias to another directory(/spare/log).
My find works fine on /spare/log but it doesnt return anything when i use it on /usr/users/xyz/log.
Any Ideas on how to proceed.
Thanks in advance.
Swamy (2 Replies)
I am trying to create an alias for a frequently used directory path by using
alias xyz="/proj/dir_name"
and then trying to reach a sub-directoy by using
cd xyz/abc
but I get an error saying " No such file or directory "
plz tell me wats wrong with this ... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have to set up a printer in the system.Generally the alias is given like sdclbl1 etc.So when I ping i get the IP address.
This time they have provided the IP adress.Is there any way to find the alias from this.Ping did not give the alias.
Thanks and Regards,
Gideon. (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a software package consisting of a group of BASH shell scripts. There is a master script which calls a series of subscripts. To run the software users must open the master script, modify and save it, and then run it. To open the script you can either double-click on it, or you can... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I wanted to see if there's a way to shortcut to a dated logs directory that changes daily...what I'm working with is something like this:
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>
>
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where the log directory is named yyyymmdd
I've created a shortcut to get me to the /log directory but was... (2 Replies)
Some time ago I was using a linux system and someone had set up and
alias called "back" that got me back to the directory I was last in, which
was very useful. I've now switched to using a mac, and don't have those aliases available. Can anyone tell me how I could make a an alias that
would... (2 Replies)
Hello Friends is it possible to define an alias (say named as COMMAND) to pick a part of line and change my directory to picked. For example
when I type
COMMAND mfong@vhl.gov.nd/homefolder/hhk/ADS/
it would do
cd /homefolder/hhk/ADS/ (1 Reply)
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)
I have a mailserver with postfix
i want to alias all mail for administrator@domain.fqdn
to root@domain.fqdn
I have the aliases configured,and i did newliases
but doesn't work.
How to did this?Postfix is configured for virtual domain on ad server. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Linusolaradm1
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
which
WHICH(1) General Commands Manual WHICH(1)NAME
which - shows the full path of (shell) commands.
SYNOPSIS
which [options] [--] programname [...]
DESCRIPTION
Which takes one or more arguments. For each of its arguments it prints to stdout the full path of the executables that would have been exe-
cuted when this argument had been entered at the shell prompt. It does this by searching for an executable or script in the directories
listed in the environment variable PATH using the same algorithm as bash(1).
This man page is generated from the file which.texinfo.
OPTIONS --all, -a
Print all matching executables in PATH, not just the first.
--read-alias, -i
Read aliases from stdin, reporting matching ones on stdout. This is useful in combination with using an alias for which itself. For
example
alias which='alias | which -i'.
--skip-alias
Ignore option `--read-alias', if any. This is useful to explicity search for normal binaries, while using the `--read-alias' option in
an alias or function for which.
--read-functions
Read shell function definitions from stdin, reporting matching ones on stdout. This is useful in combination with using a shell func-
tion for which itself. For example:
which() { declare -f | which --read-functions $@ }
export -f which
--skip-functions
Ignore option `--read-functions', if any. This is useful to explicity search for normal binaries, while using the `--read-functions'
option in an alias or function for which.
--skip-dot
Skip directories in PATH that start with a dot.
--skip-tilde
Skip directories in PATH that start with a tilde and executables which reside in the HOME directory.
--show-dot
If a directory in PATH starts with a dot and a matching executable was found for that path, then print "./programname" rather than the
full path.
--show-tilde
Output a tilde when a directory matches the HOME directory. This option is ignored when which is invoked as root.
--tty-only
Stop processing options on the right if not on tty.
--version,-v,-V
Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.
--help
Print usage information on standard output then exit successfully.
RETURN VALUE
Which returns the number of failed arguments, or -1 when no `programname' was given.
EXAMPLE
The recommended way to use this utility is by adding an alias (C shell) or shell function (Bourne shell) for which like the following:
[ba]sh:
which ()
{
(alias; declare -f) | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --read-functions --show-tilde --show-dot $@
}
export -f which
[t]csh:
alias which 'alias | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --show-dot --show-tilde'
This will print the readable ~/ and ./ when starting which from your prompt, while still printing the full path when used from a script:
> which q2
~/bin/q2
> echo `which q2`
/home/carlo/bin/q2
BUGS
The HOME directory is determined by looking for the HOME environment variable, which aborts when this variable doesn't exist. Which will
consider two equivalent directories to be different when one of them contains a path with a symbolic link.
AUTHOR
Carlo Wood <carlo@gnu.org>
SEE ALSO bash(1)WHICH(1)