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Hey there,

I have the below situation, hope you guys should help me. When i type a keyword on command line, the console should return me some information that i already have.
Say, i give the keyword MERGE, the command line in return should give me "Do this if you need trivial merge OR Do that for non trivial merge".
Its a kind of help message that i wish to populate when a keyword is typed on command line. Any suggestions is appreciated.
Thanks.

I think you want an alias.

In your login directory (home directory) edit .profile (or .bashrc if you use bash)
let's assume merge is a real command on your system already:

Code:

/home/nmattam/merge.sh

Add this to .profile:

Code:

alias merge='echo "do this do that" &&  /home/nmattam/merge.sh'

If you ONLY want the echo

Code:

alias merge='echo "do this do that"'

The command

Code:

alias

shows your existing alias entries.