Sponsored Content
Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Passing variable to Alias in Hp kshell Post 302551114 by Corona688 on Monday 29th of August 2011 12:17:55 PM
Old 08-29-2011
I don't think you can do that in an alias.

Even a fairly old ksh should have functions, though:

Code:
$ function asdf
{
echo $1
}
$ asdf qwerty
qwerty
$

This User Gave Thanks to Corona688 For This Post:
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Passing arguments to an alias

I want to have an alias for the command fold -78 filename | lp How do I set my alias so that the argument passed is filename ?? alias lp='fold -78 | lp' then lp filename wont work cuase this is fold -78 | lp filename (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: pmcg
1 Replies

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Alias with variable?

I'm new to UNIX. I have to run executables often, and they all have a common prefix "prefix_". Now I'm wondering if I can make an alias where I can type run xyz that will then execute "./prefix_xyz" ? Thanks in advance. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: JustinT
1 Replies

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Using * when passing argument to alias

I have some folders with this structure: /data/me/a123xxx Where "xxx" is some changing series of letters, and "123" changes so folders might look like: /data/me/a123xxx /data/me/a234ysd /data/me/a534sds etc. The numbers are what matter to me (they identify the folder), so I created an... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: ramparts
7 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to see a variable value outside a function in kshell

Hi, I wrote a small shell script which had function C_fun() and script name is same C_fun.ksh Here is the program inside the script #!bin/ksh -x C_fun() { typeset TEXT=${1} } echo Value of TEXT $TEXT When Im running the above script with Parameter "R" as the option .... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: somu_june
6 Replies

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

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: # alias to list directory contents as root and sort by size. alias lss='sudo ls -l | sort -nbk5' When I call... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: derndingle
5 Replies

6. UNIX and Linux Applications

Passing date parameter on Kshell command line

I need to execute a .ksh from command line. The ksh calls a control file and has 3 parameters. First parameter is a csv file, second the target table in oracle and third parameter is a date parameter. I am attempting the below from the ksh command line {code} => testfile.ksh filname.csv... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: kobe24
1 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

awk alias passing a value to a variable

I am trying to turn this into an alias with no luck. I would then like to put the alias into my bashrc file. I know awk is very picky about quotes. I have tried every version of quotes, single quotes, double quotes, and backslashes that I can think of. VAR=$(xrandr | awk '$2=="connected"{s=$1}... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: cokedude
3 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Passing alias to a function

The objective of this function is to validate the file full path. cat /dev/null > crontab_NOTEXISTS.txt function File_Existence # Accepts 1 parameter { file_name="$(echo $1)" echo "${file_name}" && break || echo "$file_name NOT FOUND" >> crontab_NOTEXISTS.txt } while read file_name... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: aimy
7 Replies

9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Passing variable as input & storing output in other variable

I have a below syntax its working fine... var12=$(ps -ef | grep apache | awk '{print $2,$4}') Im getting expected output as below: printf "%b\n" "${VAR12}" dell 123 dell 456 dell 457 Now I wrote a while loop.. the output of VAR12 should be passed as input parameters to while loop and results... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: sam@sam
5 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Passing an argument using alias to piped command

Hi. I'm trying to do a "simple" thing. grep -rls grepped_exp path | xgs where xgs is an alias to something like: xargs gvim -o -c ":g/grepped_exp" now the problem is that I want to pass the "grepped_exp" to the piped alias. I was able to do something like what I want without the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: hagaysp
4 Replies
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] aliasadm -m alias [ optional flags] aliasadm [-I] [-D domainname] [-f filename] [-M mapname] 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- ence. 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. -I Initialize the NIS+ aliases database. -l List the alias map. -m Print or match an alias. -D domainname Edit the map in domain domainname instead of the current domain. -f filename When editing or listing the database, use filename instead of invoking the editor. -M mapname Edit mapname instead of mail_aliases. FILES
/etc/aliases mail aliases for the local host in ASCII format ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWnisu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
sendmail(1M), attributes(5) NOTES
NIS+ might not be supported in future releases of the SolarisTM Operating Environment. Tools to aid the migration from NIS+ to LDAP are available in the Solaris 9 operating environment. For more information, visit http://www.sun.com/directory/nisplus/transition.html. SunOS 5.10 12 Dec 2001 aliasadm(1M)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 11:31 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy