James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> > Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> >> On 6/8/07, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> On 6/7/07, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>> Here is a really simple shell script that I wrote for "pdf2up", using
> >>>> their tool. There are lots of other fancy features that I did not
> >>>> need.
> >>>>
> >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat $(which pdf2up)
> >>>> #!/bin/sh
> >>>> java tool.pdf.Impose -nup 2 -paper letter $*
> > ^^ should be "$@"
> > complete with quotes
> >>> Why not an alias?
> >> A one-line shell script seemed easier at the time.
> >>
> >> Bash aliases don't take arguments, although that would not be problem
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> in this case.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I somehow managed to miss that the first time.
> Appending often doesn't do what you want, which is why I mentioned
> functions.
>
> But, jhriv -- am I remembering correctly that zsh aliases allow args?
That is false.
However, you can do some suffix-type aliases:
% alias -s ps=gv
% *.gv
would exapnd to:
gv *.ps
then the glob would exapnd:
gv file1.ps file2.ps file3.ps
You can also do global aliases, that exapnd in ANY position:
% alias -g MESSAGE='Hello, World!'
% echo MESSAGE
Hello, World!
But none of them are args, per se. Shell functions certainly can. As cah
shell script one-liners.
-john
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