and then subsequently wants to create an alias file from each pathname the find command retrieved and the > placed within 'newfile', how would one do this? Ideally, the newly created alias files would all be in one directory.
I am on a Mac OS X 10.7. The notion of an alias file is a 'file.txt alias' that points to another 'file.txt'. 'file.txt alias' only points to where the data represented by the same pathname actually is.
Thanks!
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Hi, i want make 1 alias with two commands include to do two things at the same time like this:
ex: do finger and last at the same time with only one word finla or something.
Thanks.-
/home/seba > finger dustin
Login name: dustin In real life: Dustin Feldman
Directory:... (3 Replies)
I want to create an alias that will grep the passwd file for the logged in persons username and then it will return the password file entry. I want to pipe the whoami info to the grep command. I have created the following: % alias whopw grep... (1 Reply)
I want to create a command alias. I know what shell I'm
using, I just don't know which file to inter the command alias.
When I type "echo $SHELL" the output is as follows:
bin/sh
If I'm correct, this is the bourne shell. Does anyone know which file to edit in this particular shell? Thanks. (2 Replies)
If I want to create an alias called "cdr", and this alias need an argument (for example arg1)followed by "cdr", the result should go to the directory like "/home/ting/arg1/report/logs", the command should look like below,
alias cdr arg1 "cd /home/ting/\!$1/report/logs" (not working)::(
... (1 Reply)
I am using Solaris 9 machine. I am unable to create any aliases.
I gave the following command:
alias ls='ls -ltr'
It did nt give any errors. But next time, I use ls, it is working simply as ls but not like ls -ltr.
I am not having admin permissions. Is it the reason. (3 Replies)
Hi GUYS,
I need to create an alias for the the connect statement.
I want to replace "CONNECT TO DBNAME" to "CONNECT TO DBNAME user USERID using PASSWORD"
I thought i will add an alias in the .profile.
But its not working. May be because i am trying to create it for 3 words instead of one... (2 Replies)
Is there a way to create alias for commands and store then in a location where a certain group can run them. I also want anybody in that group to be able to add alias. I don't want them to access the /etc/environment or /etc/profile files to do so. If there needs to be a line added in either of... (1 Reply)
I want to create an alias cpage4 and create a postscript file
For example I want to call
cpage4 file.f
which creates the file file.ps
I have written like this but don't know how to continue
alias cpage4 '/usr/bin/mpage -m40 -4AHP- \!* (6 Replies)
Actually I have many pictures with diferent name and size around 2000, I need generate a copy of them from one list of alias. The structure of the list is something like this:
alias_list.txt
<01>randomname.png<02>
Randomname.png
RandoMname.png
RandOmname.png
RandomnamE.png... (6 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT XFREE86
update-fonts-alias
update-fonts-alias(8) System Manager's Manual update-fonts-alias(8)NAME
update-fonts-alias - compile fonts.alias files
SYNOPSIS
update-fonts-alias [OPTION] directory ...
DESCRIPTION
update-fonts-alias assembles a fonts.alias file in an X font directory using one or more alias files found in a subdirectory of
/etc/X11/fonts/. It is typically invoked only from the post-installation and post-removal scripts of a package containing X Window System
fonts that provide aliases for their XLFD names, but may be invoked at any time to reconstruct fonts.alias files. For each directory,
which is simply the last component of its path (such as '75dpi' or 'misc'), update-fonts-alias will assemble either
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/directory/fonts.alias or /usr/share/fonts/X11/directory/fonts.alias from the files found in /etc/X11/fonts/direc-
tory/package.alias.
This enables multiple packages to provide aliases for fonts in the same directory. No font package actually provides the fonts.alias file
in the X font directory itself, so there is no danger of overwriting one package's aliases with those of another.
For instance, the two packages 'xfonts-base' and 'xfonts-base-transcoded' may both install fonts into the directory
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc. They each place their fonts.alias files in /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias and
/etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base-transcoded.alias (respectively). update-fonts-alias concatenates these two files (as well as any others
that match /etc/X11/fonts/misc/*.alias) into /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias.
The format of fonts.alias files is described in the mkfontdir(1x) manual page.
An example of how to use update-fonts-alias in package maintainer scripts is provided in the Debian Policy Manual.
OPTIONS-h, --help displays a brief usage message and exits.
OPERANDS
update-fonts-alias takes one or more X font directory names to operate on as operands. Only the final path component of the directory name
should be specified; e.g.,
update-fonts-alias 75dpi
is correct, while 'update-fonts-alias /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi' and 'update-fonts-alias /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi' are not.
ENVIRONMENT
COLUMNS
indicates the width of the terminal device in character cells. This value is used for formatting diagnostic messages. If not set,
the terminal is queried using stty(1) to determine its width. If that fails, a value of '80' is assumed.
DIAGNOSTICS
Errors
usage error: one or more font directories must be provided
update-fonts-alias was invoked without operands. Supply one or more X font directory names to operate on.
usage error: unrecognized option
update-fonts-alias was invoked with an unrecognized option argument. Use only the options documented in "OPTIONS", above.
fatal error: path to X font directory must be used
A directory name was supplied that was not an X font directory name. Supply X font directory names only.
Warnings
warning: absolute path directory was provided
Usage of absolute paths is deprecated. Use only the final component of the X font directory name for directory.
warning: directory does not exist or is not a directory
The supplied directory was invalid. update-fonts-alias skipped it.
EXIT STATUS
0 update-fonts-alias ran successfully.
1 update-fonts-alias experienced a fatal error; see the section on diagnostic messages above.
2 update-fonts-alias was invoked with invalid arguments.
BUGS
See the Debian Bug Tracking System <http://bugs.debian.org/xfonts-utils>. If you wish to report a bug in update-fonts-alias, please see
/usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or the reportbug(1) command.
AUTHOR
update-fonts-alias was written by Branden Robinson.
SEE ALSOmkfontdir(1x)Debian Project 2004-11-11 update-fonts-alias(8)
04-16-2012
