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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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aliasadm(1M)                                              System Administration Commands                                              aliasadm(1M)

NAME

       aliasadm - manipulate the NIS+ aliases map

SYNOPSIS

       aliasadm -a alias expansion [options comments] optional flags

       aliasadm -c alias expansion [ options comments] [ optional flags]

       aliasadm -d alias [ optional flags]

       aliasadm -e alias [ optional flags]

       aliasadm -l alias [ optional flags]

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DESCRIPTION

       aliasadm makes changes to the alias map.

       The alias map is an NIS+ table object with four columns:

       alias           The name of the alias as a null terminated string.

       expansion       The value of the alias as it would appear in a sendmail /etc/aliases file.

       options         A  list  of options applicable to this alias.  The only option currently supported is  CANON. With this option, if the user
                       has requested an inverse alias lookup, and there is more than one alias with this expansion, this alias  is  given  prefer-
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       comments        An  arbitrary  string  containing comments about this alias. The sendmail(1M) command reads this map in addition to the NIS
                       aliases map and the local  /etc/aliases database.

OPTIONS

       -a              Add an alias.

       -c              Change an alias.

       -d              Delete an alias.

       -e              Edit the alias map.

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       -l              List the alias map.

       -m              Print or match an alias.

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FILES

       /etc/aliases    mail aliases for the local host in ASCII format

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       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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