On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: > On Friday 21 June 2002 14:32, you wrote: > > > 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 ;) > > Thanks Tom, > > Your reply has stimulated my thinking, I had noticed various pieces > of threads where people were setting up aliases and had thought of > perhaps doing something with this device , but my knowledge is a bit > lacking. It's obvious that for instance just to use cdrecord for all > it's possiblities that it might well require 10 or so aliases, or is > there another way of doing it. I wounderd whether it was possible to > set up a situation, where you typed cdrecord into a terminal and all > the availble choices came up, and you selected one and pressed > enter,and the appropriate command line is then run. Just a thought.
Hi John, depends what you are referring to. What choices of cdrecord do you want to have? If I recall there aren't so many options, or have you managed to get cdrecord to get your groceries and wash the car? ;-) I usually make a bash script for the program choices I want, but I have no idea what you mean with cdrecord. Give me a list of what you want (not anything you can think of), and I will tell you if it's possible with bash. Greetings Ralph -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/
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