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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Setting alias for a user - Linux ubuntu Post 302447049 by agama on Friday 20th of August 2010 05:59:36 PM
Old 08-20-2010
The $1 in your awk script is being expanded (probably to nothing) when you set the alias. This results in the awk being "{print}" rather than {print $1} and the whole line from who is being printed.

try escaping the $ with a back-slant:
Code:
alias stop="who | awk '{print \$1}'|sed '/SYSTEM/d' | sed '/root/d' |xargs -i pkill -u {}"

which should pass the $1 as is into the alias and then execute it properly. You might also want to pipe your output to sort -u before piping it into xargs on the off chance that a user is logged in more than once.
 

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ali

ali(1)							      General Commands Manual							    ali(1)

NAME

       ali - list mail aliases (only available within the message handling system, mh)

SYNOPSIS

       ali [-alias aliasfile] [-help] [-[no]list] [-[no]normalize] [-user useraddr] [-nouser] [aliases...]

OPTIONS

       Specifies  the alias file to be consulted by ali.  You can specify more than one alias file, but each aliasfile must be preceded by -alias.
       In addition to any alias files that you specify, ali consults the system alias file /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases.

	      You can set up an entry in your so that ali automatically consults an alias file. To do this, add the Aliasfile entry to	your  pro-
	      file. See mh_profile(4) for more information.  Prints a list of the valid options to this command.  Prints the addresses on separate
	      lines. If you do not specify the -list option, the addresses are separated by commas and	printed  on  as  few  lines  as  possible.
	      Instructs  ali  to try to track down the official hostname of the address. This can be suppressed by using -nonormalize. The default
	      is -nonormalize.	Displays all the aliases that contain a specific name. Instead of listing the  addresses  that	each  given  alias
	      expands  to,  ali lists the aliases that expand to include each given address. You must specify the complete user name that you have
	      used in your alias file.

       The defaults for this command are:

       -alias /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases -nolist -nonormalize -nouser

DESCRIPTION

       The ali command searches the specified mail alias files for each of the given aliases. It creates a list of addresses  for  those  aliases,
       and displays that list on the screen.

PROFILE COMPONENTS

       Location of your mail directory.  Location of your personal alias file.

EXAMPLES

       The  following  example	shows  how  the  -user option can be used to list all the aliases containing the address Parker@Venus: % ali -user
       Parker@Venus Parker@Venus: Group, Reviewers, Badminton

FILES

       The user profile.  The system alias file.  The system password file.  The system group file.

SEE ALSO

       mh-alias(4)

																	    ali(1)
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