Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to create an alias cpage4 and create a postscript file

For example I want to call

Code:

cpage4 file.f

which creates the file file.ps

I have written like this but don't know how to continue

Code:

alias cpage4 '/usr/bin/mpage -m40 -4AHP- \!*

Does this work for you?

Code:

alias cpage4="/usr/bin/mpage -m40 -4AHP- \!*"

The below is ok but I need it to create the postscipt file as well

Code:

alias cpage4 '/usr/bin/mpage -m40 -4AHP- \!*'

I am thinking of redirect it to the file with the extension
replaced by 'ps'

Code:

alias cpage4 '/usr/bin/mpage -m40 -4AHP- \!* > file.ps'

Just need to replace file with the actual file name.

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Am thinking of trying to pipe to some other command to redirect the ouput
from /usr/bin/mpage -m40 -4AHP- \!* to a file with same name as input but
with .ps extension.

Code:

alias cpage4 '/usr/bin/mpage -m40 -4AHP- \!* | awk '{   }''

A script might be more useful for this. Call this cpage4:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

FILE=`cut -f1 -d "."`
/usr/bin/mpage -m40 -4AHP- \!* > $FILE.ps

The thing is that I want to put the command as an alias in my .cshrc

I would call it using

Code:

cpage4 fname.f

And it immediately creates fname.ps

Aliases don't expand or take parameters to well. For that is better to use a script like above, and put it in your path. Then you can use it in the same way with

Code:

cpage4 fname.f

I see.