On Thursday 20 June 2002 09:32 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
> Please , I have absolutely nothing against the command line,
> I'm just not experienced with it, and I am the kind of person who
> doesn't have a mind like a telephone directory, and so I have to
> spend a lot of time working out beforehand what commands to store
> on a spare floppy and highlight them, and then middlemouse button
> them to the command line in terminal, however once set up I find
> this is easily the best method of doing things in many cases. So
> yes by all means , I want to learn the commands, but I am also the
> kind of person who likes to get everything working , including gui,
> in apple pie order. Of course Gmplayer is early days yet, but
> coming on.
Rather than store the commands and then fetch 'em with cut'n
paste, put them in bashrc as aliases. If you put them in /etc/bashrc
they'll be system wide. Put in your users .bashrc, they'll be just
for that user.
Example, I use this alias to play all the .avi's and .mpg's in a
directory (or CD). alias mpy='mplayer -fs *' Saves typing it out
each time, just typing 'mpy' plays all the movies full screen. Even
better for longer, more complicated commands. Just use the form
alias <whatever_you_choose>="<command_to_run>"
The command needs to be enclosed with either single or double
quotes. Put your aliases in bashrc at the end of the file after the
last 'fi'. Try it, you'll like it ;)
--
Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
