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["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Sunday 30 November 2008 21:07:51 David C. Rankin wrote:
> > alias wp='if [[ $1 ]]; then webpin $1; else echo -e "\n\tusage: wp
> > <filename>\n"; fi'
>
>
> I don't think you can actually pass parameters to aliases. Your previous 
> alias 
> worked because wp expanded to "webpin $1" and $1 evaluated to the blank string
>
> You want to use a shell function instead. Something like
>
> function wp() { if [ -n "$1" ]; then webpin $1; else echo -e "\nbad usage\n"; 
> fi }
>
> Anders

Thank you all!

        I finally resolved to the function idea Aaron first suggested.

wpsearch ()
{
if [[ $1 ]]; then
    webpin $1
else
    echo -e "\n\tusage: wp <filename>\n"
fi
}

alias wp='wpsearch $1'

        I guess I've been lucky using $1 with aliases. I don't know how they 
work, but
they work in most instances for me:

alias hist='history | grep $1' #Requires one input
alias tmsg='sudo tail $1 -n50 /var/log/messages' # -f to follow
alias tmi='sudo tail $1 -n50 /var/log/mail.info' # -f to follow
alias umnt='/home/david/bin/alias_umnt $1'
alias wg='[[ -n $1 ]] || echo -e "\n\tUsage:  wg <filename>\t\t(runs wget
--no-check-certificate --progress=bar)\n"; wget --no-check-certificate
--progress=bar $1' #requires input
alias zu='/home/david/linux/scripts/config/zypp/zypp_auto $1' # either up for
patches or -t packages for pagkages
alias znr='sudo zypper nr $1 $2' # requires two inputs <old repo alias> <new
repo alias>

        That's why I was surprised to be having trouble with the webpin alias. 
If I
recall correctly, I was actually introduced to the command line parameter in
aliases idea through a BASH-howto.


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