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RE: run batch w/o .bat?


Kevin,

BASH's aliases do not have all the functionality of CSH/TCSH aliases. In particular, they cannot access the history mechanism. If you want to do more than simple left-substitution of the command name, you should use a shell procedure instead.

This should be equivalent to what you're trying:

bat() {
batName="$1.bat"
shift
"$batName" "$@"
}


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA



At 14:46 2002-06-04, Barnhart, Kevin wrote:

Actually, I would settle for something like the following:

alias 'bat'='!:0-0.bat !:1*'

I'd like to add this into .bashrc.  Problem is that when I type in 'bat' at
the command line I get the following error:
bash: !:0-0.bat: command not found

I'm tried to escape the bang with a '\', but to no avail.  If I type:
!:0-0.bat !:1*
at the command line then there is no problem--it does what is supposed to,
which is to append '.bat' to the 0-word of the previous command.

Help?

Kevin

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