Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:33:10 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions -" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Adding an alias to .cshrc Message-ID: <20091230153310.GA18368@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4B3AA3CD.3020709@ibctech.ca> References: <4B3AA3CD.3020709@ibctech.ca>
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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 07:50:21PM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Hi all, happy holidays! > > I want to add an alias to my .cshrc file: > > alias srm find . -name "*~" | xargs rm > Your problem is quoting the command. It has multiple parts with white space, so it all needs to be quoted. Something like: alias srm "find . -name \"*~\" | xargs rm" ////jerry > ...so that I have an easy way to remove the temp files left by svn. > > After adding the alias, logging out and then back in, I get an error > stating: > > acct-dev: ISP-RADIUS % srm > srm: Command not found. > > I thought that perhaps the file wasn't being read upon login, so I > appended a new alias underneath: > > alias srm find . -name "*~" | xargs rm > alias sll ls -lA > > ...which works fine when called after re-login. > > I even went as far as to prefix the find/xargs command with full paths, > to no avail. > > Is this a problem with the pipe in the alias directive? The command > works on the CLI, as I literally copy/pasted it into the .cshrc file. > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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