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20 sie 2011 · You don't make an alias that takes parameters because alias just adds a second name for something that already exists. The functionality the OP wants is the function command to create a new function.
You found the way: create a function instead of an alias. The C shell has a mechanism for doing arguments to aliases, but bash and the Korn shell don't, because the function mechanism is more flexible and offers the same capability.
13 sty 2012 · If you're really against using a function per se, you can use: $ alias wrap_args='f(){ echo before "$@" after; unset -f f; }; f'. $ wrap_args x y z. before x y z after. You can replace $@ with $1 if you only want the first argument.
18 mar 2024 · We can use the alias command to replace the long monotonous shell command with another, much shorter name. In this tutorial, we’ll explain the steps to create an alias and learn how to pass parameters to it in the Bash shell.
alias '\-'='cd -' # bash: alias: `\-': Invalid alias name. The former three are the same (only different input, but bash turns all of them into the same command alias with a single argument -=cd -), so it's no surprise the error message is the same.
1 paź 2022 · In this tutorial, we saw how to create an alias that can accept arguments and parameters on a Linux system. While technically possible to achieve with aliases, we have also shown an example of how a Bash function can be used for this functionality by itself.
I am trying to create an aliases in bash. What I want to do is map ls -la to ls -la | more. In my .bashrc file this is what I attempted: alias 'ls -la'='ls -la | more' However it does not work because (I assume) it has spaces in the alias name. Is there a work around for this?
