G'day Owain, I'm slightly surprised that works at all without a semicolon :-)
On 26/02/2021 09:23, Owain Clarke via Hampshire wrote:
Hi. Could someone help me with the error of my ways? I'm sure this one is dead simple but I can't see it.I have this alias:- alias my_alias='cd ~/somedirectory && ristretto * & geany progress &'The ristretto bit works as expected, but I thought that the text file that opened would be ~/somedirectory/progress, but instead it creates ~/progress. What's wrong with my syntax?Thanks Owain
My guess is that the && is tying together 'cd ~/somedirectory && ristretto * &' which then is backgrounded; 'geany progress &' is invoked separately (from whichever directory you issued the alias) and backgrounded.
Did you mean to do something like 'cd ~/somedirectory && ristretto * && geany progress &' or 'cd ~/somedirectory && (ristretto * & geany progress &)' instead? Cheers Brad
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