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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Passing arguments to alias with multiple commands Post 302523942 by derndingle on Friday 20th of May 2011 10:28:55 AM
Old 05-20-2011
Passing arguments to alias with multiple commands
I have a few aliases set up on AIX servers in my .kshrc file. Some of them contain multiple commands that are piped together.

A simple example would be something like this:
Code:
 
# alias to list directory contents as root and sort by size.
alias lss='sudo ls -l | sort -nbk5'

When I call the alias from the command line, is it possible to pass a command line switch to one of the commands in the sequence using the alias? For instance, with the above example, if I wanted to include a "-a" argument to the ls command in addition to the -l that is part of my alias, could I do that?

I know I could create multiple aliases with the various argument permutations, but if there is a way to pass the arguments in, it would mean fewer aliases to have to create (and remember.)

Thank you.
 

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ali

ALI(1)								     [nmh-1.5]								    ALI(1)

NAME

       ali - list mail aliases

SYNOPSIS

       ali [-alias aliasfile] [-list | -nolist] [-normalize | -nonormalize] [-user | -nouser] [-version] [-help] [aliases ...]

DESCRIPTION

       Ali  searches  the named mail alias files for each of the given aliases.  It creates a list of addresses for those aliases, and writes that
       list on standard output.  If no arguments are given, ali outputs all alias entries.

       By default, when an aliases expands to multiple addresses, the addresses are separated by commas and printed on as few lines  as  possible.
       If the -list option is specified, then when an address expands to multiple addresses, each address will appear on a separate line.

       The  switch  -user  directs  ali  to  perform its processing in an inverted fashion: instead of listing the addresses that each given alias
       expands to, ali will list the aliases that expand to each given address.  If the -normalize switch is given, ali will try to track down the
       official hostname of the address.

       The  files  specified  by  the  profile entry "Aliasfile" and any additional alias files given by the -alias aliasfile switch will be read.
       Each alias is processed as described in mh-alias(5).

FILES

       $HOME/.mh_profile	  The user profile
       /etc/passwd		  List of users
       /etc/group		  List of groups

PROFILE COMPONENTS

       Path:		    To determine the user's nmh directory
       Aliasfile:	    For a default alias file

SEE ALSO

       mh-alias(5)

DEFAULTS

       `aliasfiles' defaults to /etc/nmh/MailAliases
       `-nolist'
       `-nonormalize'
       `-nouser'

CONTEXT

       None

BUGS

       The -user option with -nonormalize is not entirely accurate, as it does not replace local nicknames for	hosts  with  their  official  site
       names.

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