Re: Bash and my mid-life crises

2002-10-03 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:33:04PM -0700, Robert Monical wrote: > > >Anyone else have any useful functions or aliases they'd like to > >show off? > I'm glad that you asked. I was looking for an FM to > read. If you like learning by example (heh, is there any other way?), go to fresh

Re: Bash and my mid-life crises

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Monical
> >Your account should have received working copies of both files from >/etc/skel when created. If not, take a look in /etc/skel to see how the >two files relate to each other. It did. I just missed the .bashrc explanation when I scanned man bash. Thanks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscr

Re: Bash and my mid-life crises

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Monical
>Anyone else have any useful functions or aliases they'd like to show off? I'm glad that you asked. I was looking for an FM to read. Robert Monical Reservation Technologies, Inc. Technology Solutions for Destination Marketing Organizations [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.restek.com -- r

Re: Bash and my mid-life crises

2002-10-03 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 07:38:32PM -0400, Barry L. Kline wrote: > "Barry L. Kline" wrote: > > function rpmgqa () { > rpm -qa | grep "$1" > } I'm not sure what the accepted form is, but I use the syntax above for multi-line functions and the one below for one-liners. I just find it more co

Re: Bash and my mid-life crises

2002-10-03 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Robert Monical wrote: > I also have some functions defined in that same .bash_profile ( shell > functions are new to me). Functions should be defined in .bashrc, not .bash_profile, since the latter is only invoked during logins, while the former is onvoked whenever you laun

Re: Bash and my mid-life crises

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Monical
At 07:12 PM 10/3/2002 -0400, you wrote: >On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:46:21PM -0700, Robert Monical wrote: > > > > Some questions: > > 1. Any idea why the functions are not active when opening a KDE terminal? > >man bash, and read the INVOCATION part about initialization files, login >shells, and in

Re: Bash and my mid-life crises

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Monical
> >function rpmgqa () { > rpm -qa | grep "$1" >} Perfect. Unix gets better and better. Thanks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Bash and my mid-life crises

2002-10-03 Thread Barry L. Kline
"Barry L. Kline" wrote: > > Robert Monical wrote: > > > but maybe I screwed up the configuration). > > 3. Would someone help me learn how to use positional parameters in bash > > functions. > > something like (as you can tell, I'm not much of a shell guy). > > function rpmqag { rpm -qa | grep #1

Re: Bash and my mid-life crises

2002-10-03 Thread Barry L. Kline
Robert Monical wrote: > but maybe I screwed up the configuration). > 3. Would someone help me learn how to use positional parameters in bash > functions. > something like (as you can tell, I'm not much of a shell guy). > function rpmqag { rpm -qa | grep #1 } > rpmqag () {rpm -qa | grep "$1"}

Re: Bash and my mid-life crises

2002-10-03 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:46:21PM -0700, Robert Monical wrote: > > Some questions: > 1. Any idea why the functions are not active when opening a KDE terminal? man bash, and read the INVOCATION part about initialization files, login shells, and interactive shells. It is quite possible to have pr

Bash and my mid-life crises

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Monical
Moving from Solaris (csh) to Linux (bash). I'm liking bash a lot. RedHat 7.2. I have some environment variables defined in .bash_profile. When using KDE and opening the terminal from the control panel, these are set as expected. I also have some functions defined in that same .bash_profile ( s