Hi, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > enscript --verbose --media=letter -2 --landscape --borders --header='$n|A.D. > $D{%Y.%m.%d}|$* gmt | Page $% of $=' filename > ... > can I define in bash an alias or something
The job is somewhat too big for a bash alias. But there is the old concept of a shell script. Use your favorite text editor to open a file in your $HOME directory. E.g.: vi ~/my_enscript Write as first line the address of the program that shall interpret your script. Prepend it by "#!" : #!/bin/bash Then write your command line, replacing the filename by "$1" enscript --verbose --media=letter -2 --landscape --borders \ --header='$n|A.D. $D{%Y.%m.%d}|$* gmt | Page $% of $=' \ "$1" (I split the long line by backslashes for better readbility.) Store the file and leave the editor. Back in the shell give the file x-permission for its owner: chmod o+x ~/my_enscript To run your script with file "filename", execute in the shell ~/my_enscript filename "$1" in the script will get replaced by the first argument of your command line. I.e by "filename". Have a look at your shell variable $PATH. It tells a list of directories where scripts and programs are looked up if their name contains no "/". echo $PATH might put out something like /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/home/thomas/bin So if i would put "my_script" into /home/thomas/bin then it would be found by bash without the leading "~/": my_enscript filename Have a nice day :) Thomas