Mikkel,
But,in the other example which i gave you,as follows:
alias rm='cat $1 >testall'
works without any problems.Isn't $1 the arguement passed to rm cmd in this case
too..??
Vineeta
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Vineeta wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Vineeta wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I am only trying this in my home directory i.e. /home/vineeta.
> > > > under vineeta dir.,i have a dir. called trashdir.
> > > > Now,my script lies in /home/vineeta
> > > >
> > > > So,what's going wrong with alias rm='mv $1 ./trashdir' ??
> > > > As statux put it,use "$1" in quotes.
> > > > I missed out this.But,what's the difference.
> > > >
> > > > Now,if i try out what statux says i.e. alias rm='mv "$1" $HOME/trashdir"
> > > > ,i get:
> > > >
> > > > mv: when moving multiple files,last arguement must be a directory.
> > > >
> > > > Vineeta
> > > >
> > > >From the error message, the file you are trying to delete is not realy a
> > > file, but a directory, and trashdir is realy a file, not a directory.
> > >
> > > What does "file trashdir" return. Also, what does file say about the
> > > file name you are using when trying your new rm command?
> > >
> > > Mikkel
> > > --
> >
> > Hi Mikkel,
> >
> > The command:
> > file trashdir
> > returns:
> > trashdir: directory
> >
> > About the new "rm" command,i am using it only as an alias on the prompt.
> > i am not using it in a file.
> >
> > i am only using the following:
> > alias rm='mv "$1" $HOME/trashdir'
> >
> > that's it.on command line.
> > the error i get when i say:
> > rm testrm1
> >
> > is:
> > mv: when moving multiple files,last arguement must be a directory.
> >
> > However,i just tried something new :
> > alias rm='cat $1 >testall'
> >
> > after that when i try:
> > rm testrm1
> > (where testrm1 is a file i want to delete)
> >
> > It succesfully overwrite the contents into the file testall.
> > IS it that mv and cp require something more..?
> > Am really puzzled.
> >
> > Vineeta
> >
> >
> I finely had time to play around with this. Doing it as an alias does
> not work - the file name is not passed to the alias as $1. But I did
> create a function that works.
>
> rm ()
> {
> mv $@ $HOME/trashdir
> }
>
> Mikkel
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