csh aliases
Glen McCluskey
glenm at mako.UUCP
Sat Mar 9 08:58:18 AEST 1985
Has anyone thought of modifying the C shell to allow aliases on
other than the first word of each command? For example, assuming
a new alias command called ``nalias'', one might say:
% nalias t '/etc/termcap'
% more t
which would invoke ``more'' on ``/etc/termcap''. There are a number
of other ways this might be done, such as with shell variables, but
this seems like a convenient thing to have.
This could be generalized (probably too much!) to allow one to change
shell syntax, such as the following:
% nalias pipe '|'
% sort xyz pipe uniq
equivalent to
% sort xyz | uniq
Glen McCluskey
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