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Escaping quotes in zsh alias

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

Following on from this question about stripping newlines out of text, I want to turn this into a zsh alias as follows:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags alias, quoting, shell, zsh Leave a comment

bash aliases do not expand even with shopt expand_aliases

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

I want to run an alias inside a bash -c construct.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags alias, bash Leave a comment

How can I create an alias for a git [action] command (which includes spaces)?

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

Most of my my aliases are of this form: alias p='pwd'

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags alias, bash, git, shell, terminal Leave a comment

What are commands to find shell keywords, built in functions and user defined functions?

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

I was discussing with my friend on how the commands are parsed in the shell, and he told me that bash searches the command in following order

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Non-interactive shell expand alias

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

I’m having trouble getting aliases to expand on my hosting account when I run a command like:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags alias, bash, bashrc, ssh Leave a comment

How do I temporarily bypass an alias in tcsh?

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

I am using tcsh. bash and zsh and other suggestions won’t help here.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags alias, shell, tcsh Leave a comment

Have xargs use alias instead of binary

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

Bash 4.2 on CentOS 6.5:

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Why is aliasing over standard commands not recommended?

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

For example, a common alias I’ve seen in the ~/.bashrc file (or equivalents) is

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags alias, command-line, shell Leave a comment

Resolve nested aliases to their source commands

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

I’ve made several aliases for my convenience.But now I need to be helpful by sending a useful command and it is full of aliases.I’ve tried doing type u but all it returns is

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How to set an alias for a specific file or directory?

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

There are several files I work with often. For instance some configuration files or log files. Let’s say the Apache log file. I often want to tail or grep it. Instead of writing:

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    remove libwacom2 worked for me as well

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