On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:47 PM wes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > > OK, this is Linux, where someone a long time ago decided to name a root > > folder /usr to save typing just one tiny letter. I mean, seriously. > > There has to be a way to save constantly re-typing at the command line. > > Any suggestions? > > > > I have so many command aliases, that I've moved them out of my .bashrc into > their own .shell_aliases file. You'll want to find a handy combination of > letters which don't already belong to a command, and create one to suit > your purposes. There are many ways to do this, each having their own pros > and cons. I'll discuss one way; I'm sure others will chime in with various > other solutions and tell me what's missing from mine. > > Since the utility you're calling is mkvmerge, I might be tempted to create > an alias called "mm". That doesn't do anything on my system, but you might > want to check yours first to make sure it's not taken. Such an alias would > look like so: > > alias mm='mkvmerge -i' > > Thereafter, you can simply type mm <moviename>, and you're off to the > races. Bash automagically passes along any arguments you supply to an > alias. > > You can place this in your .bashrc file if you want it to be available upon > each future login. > > And bash (or zsh) autocomplete will try to autocomplete using esc-esc and that applies to aliases too. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
