Re: [opensuse] alias failure



Felix Miata wrote:
On 2007/07/28 14:46 (GMT-0700) joe apparently typed:

Randall R Schulz wrote:

Aliases don't take positional parameters, at least not in BASH (I think
they do in the Csh family, if I recall correctly). They simply expanded
verbatim in front of any arguments you give, so if you invoke it
with "/dev/hda7" as an argument, it's like running this command:

Yes, Randall is right. I took a lazy shortcut and did this instead:

for i in `cat drives`; do tune2fs -l $i | grep volume; done

which of course worked....

Not for me. I put that in a script, and got 'cat: drives: No such file or
directory', and get a syntax error unexpected token from an alias. :-(

Well, you'd have to have a file called "drives" containing the partitions you
want to run against...

in my case it was rather simple-minded:

root@libby:~> cat drives
/dev/hda1
root@libby:~>

Joe
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