I sometimes encounter similar situations, and my answer to the question
is that it is easier to remember the command and reconstruct it than to
remember what name I gave to the script running the command with my
supplied arguments. (Reminds me of Richard Feynman's approach for
remembering theorems - by deriving the proof each time a theorem is
needed.)
Maybe the right approach would be to have a script which collects
together all those one-liners and lets you choose one and supply
arguments. Such a script would use 'dialog', 'whiptail' or 'zenity' to
prompt the user.
(Personally, I found 'dialog' to be more convenient than the other two
tools.)
--- Omer
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 10:54 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Amos Shapira wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have this long command line which I keep changing multiple instances
> > of host names in it:
> >
> I know this isn't answering your question, but still:
> If you keep using the same command line, why don't you script it?
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