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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
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.
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
If one:
$ find -name 'some expression' -type f > newfile
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.
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I have a series of directories which i open regularly. I want create an alias so that i can pass the direcotry name to alias and then this commands makes Cd to the path i need. COuld you please help on how to create an alias
ex of what i am trying but couldn't succeeded
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I can get the nth line of a file using
sed -n 'np' file
however all I want to type is "line n file" so I am trying to use alias
alias line='sed -n \'&\''
but its not working, how can I make this work
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi !
I am making my first steps to make a script. Therefore i try to make a scp command more easier. Given is the following alias:
14='admin@x-abcd-def.xyz
Now i want to let the script read three var's from the console to use them in the script and then build the scp string.
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
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" ?
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7. HP-UX
i want to use short cut alias command but its not happening can any on help (4 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I'm a beginner to Unix and I want to create an alias that lists the given
directory in long format; the alias should use a pager to display the result.
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm trying to do the following:
Create an alias called whopw that will change directory to the /etc
directory and grep the password file for my username to return my password file entry.
One assumption: Once the alias works, I will be letting all of my friends copy and use it. In other... (2 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I used an alias to generate a log file for an application to produce the log file with time of invoking like this
alias app org_app -log `date| cut -c 5-7,9-10,12-13,15-16,18-19`.log
and I entered in the .cshrc file.
but the date is stored when I invoke the .cshrc file.
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