Re: [newbie] Alias question...

2001-12-30 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Saturday 29 December 2001 19:06, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Hi. I'm trying to get to alias's (pleural sp?) to work and am having a > problem. Here is what I put into /home/darklord/.bashrc: > > alias diablo2=winex /mnt/windows/Program\ Files/Diablo\ II/Game.exe > alias starcraft=winex /mnt/windows

Re: [newbie] Alias question...

2001-12-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Spencer Collyer wrote: > In bash you need quotes around the aliased command if it consists of > more than one word. Thank you! -- /\

Re: [newbie] Alias question...

2001-12-30 Thread Tim Holmes
*Slight* correction. :0) In bash you need quotes if the alias includes spaces. Example: alias z=zwrite That DOES NOT need quotes. alias mp='mplayer -vo x11' This alias DOES need quotes. I know... I'm nit-picking, just giving away free information! :0) tdh --

Re: [newbie] Alias question...

2001-12-29 Thread Spencer Collyer
On Saturday 29 December 2001 17:06, you wrote: > Hi. I'm trying to get to alias's (pleural sp?) to work and am having > a problem. Here is what I put into /home/darklord/.bashrc: > > alias diablo2=winex /mnt/windows/Program\ Files/Diablo\ II/Game.exe > alias starcraft=winex /mnt/windows/Program\ >

[newbie] Alias question...

2001-12-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Hi. I'm trying to get to alias's (pleural sp?) to work and am having a problem. Here is what I put into /home/darklord/.bashrc: alias diablo2=winex /mnt/windows/Program\ Files/Diablo\ II/Game.exe alias starcraft=winex /mnt/windows/Program\ Files/Starcraft/starcraft.exe Bash always complains that