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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers BASH: Change alias to script to add a task Post 302488824 by Corona688 on Tuesday 18th of January 2011 01:37:11 PM
Old 01-18-2011
If you want to use parameters, a function would be better than an alias. Not all shells have them but bash definitely does. You can use them like little callable scripts you put in your .bashrc

Code:
function homeperm
{
        local LOCALFILE="$1"
        local URL="$2"

        do_stuff_with_parameters
}

...and you'd just run it as homeperm parameter1 parameter2

And no, you never need to use 'cut' to do something as simple as that, the read command can do a lot for you:

Code:
$ read A B <<< "c d"
$ echo $A
c
$ echo $B
d
$

You can also split on something other than whitespace:
Code:
$ IFS="|" read A B <<< "c d|e"
$ echo $A
c d
$ echo $B
e
$

It's much more efficient than calling cut since read's a builtin and always a builtin.
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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)
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