[email protected] wrote:
> Paul Fox writes:
> >[email protected] wrote:
> > > Greetings.
> > >
> > > ali has two switches for aliases with multiple addresses:
> > >
> > > ali -list will print one address on each line
> > >
> > > ali -nolist will print addresses on "as few lines as possible"
> > >
> > > Can there be an option to force ali to print all addresses on one long
> > > line
> >?
> >
> >How about
> > echo $(ali -list alias)
> >or
> > echo $(ali -nolist alias)
> >depending on whether you want the comma separators or not.
>
> That works, but only for a single alias. I was hoping to get a list of
> all aliases, each alias/group on a single line.
>
> Backstory -- Sometimes I use mutt, and I'd like to dynamically import
> all of my NMH aliases into mutt. So i'm using this command
>
> ali | sed -e 's/://' -e 's/^/alias /'
>
> which works great, as long as each alias/group is on a single line.
>
A quick google just led me to a sed option I didn't know about, '-z',
which sets the input record separator to NUL, rather than '\n'.
Try:
ali -nolist | sed -z 's/,\n/,/g'
(I'm not saying the all-on-one-line option you're asking for might not
be convenient. Just pointing out alternatives.)
paul
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