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#!/bin/bash
# alias.sh
shopt -s expand_aliases
# Must set this option, else script will not expand aliases.
# First, some fun.
alias Jesse_James='echo "\"Alias Jesse James\" was a 1959 comedy starring Bob Hope."'
Jesse_James
echo; echo; echo;
alias ll="ls -l"
# May use either single (') or double (") quotes to define an alias.
echo "Trying aliased \"ll\":"
ll /usr/X11R6/bin/mk* #* Alias works.
echo
directory=/usr/X11R6/bin/
prefix=mk* # See if wild card causes problems.
echo "Variables \"directory\" + \"prefix\" = $directory$prefix"
echo
alias lll="ls -l $directory$prefix"
echo "Trying aliased \"lll\":"
lll # Long listing of all files in /usr/X11R6/bin stating with mk.
# An alias can handle concatenated variables -- including wild card -- o.k.
TRUE=1
echo
if [ TRUE ]
then
alias rr="ls -l"
echo "Trying aliased \"rr\" within if/then statement:"
rr /usr/X11R6/bin/mk* #* Error message results!
# Aliases not expanded within compound statements.
echo "However, previously expanded alias still recognized:"
ll /usr/X11R6/bin/mk*
fi
echo
count=0
while [ $count -lt 3 ]
do
alias rrr="ls -l"
echo "Trying aliased \"rrr\" within \"while\" loop:"
rrr /usr/X11R6/bin/mk* #* Alias will not expand here either.
# alias.sh: line 57: rrr: command not found
let count+=1
done
echo; echo
alias xyz='cat $0' # Script lists itself.
# Note strong quotes.
xyz
# This seems to work,
#+ although the Bash documentation suggests that it shouldn't.
#
# However, as Steve Jacobson points out,
#+ the "$0" parameter expands immediately upon declaration of the alias.
exit 0
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