Help with UNIX alias, need 2 word alias

[gregulator]

Well I need to alias a phrase but dont know how to do it. Like:

alias powermt config='cfgmgr -vl powerpath0'

but I get errors on invalid name. I need to alias the phrase "powermt config" Thanks for the help.

 

[ys]

Does "powermt_config" suit your need?

 

[gregulator]

nope, I need the whitespace

 

[Sunner]

That'll be seen as a command and an argument either way you do it.
Why do you need that whitespace?

Anyway, you could always make a bash script that doesn't take any arguments, called "powermt" that in turn executes "cfgmgr -vl powerpath0".
That way you could run "powermt config" and the config part would just be ignored while the cfgmgr command gets executed by the script.

 

[Nothinman]

You could try 'alias powermt\ config=blah'

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Hm, escaping the spaces doesn't work. It registers the alias, but you can't use it.

Do this:

powermt() {
if [ "x$1" = "xconfig" ]
then
cfgmgr -vl powerpath0
else
echo "bad argument"
return 1
fi
}

I think that should work how you want.

(hit quote on this message to see the correct indentation (although indentation technically doesn't matter for shell ))

 

[gregulator]

Thanks all for the help... writing a function is what I ended up doing, works perfectly!