Re: [TCLUG:17715] Aliasing

[hick0088@tc.umn.edu]

Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com wrote:
> 
> No, no.  I know how aliasing works.  But I need to alias
> something with a space in it, and nothing works.  I've tried:
> 
> alias 'ps aux'='ps -ef'
> and
> alias 'ps\ aux'='ps -ef'
> and
> alias ps\aux='ps -ef'
> etc...

Maybe it would be better to make a shell script.. ps-script or
something.  It would look something like (I'm sure my syntax is broken
somewhere ;-)

#!/bin/sh

if [ "$1" == "aux" ]; then
  ps -ef
else
  ps $*
fi

then just alias the script to `ps'..

alias 'ps'='ps-script'

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