Timeline for Display alias with substitutions
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| Mar 8, 2023 at 23:29 | vote | accept | JS. | ||
| Mar 8, 2023 at 23:29 | answer | added | JS. | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 21:08 | comment | added | JS. | No, $TARGET_DIR is just the repository I'm working out of at the time. It changes every few days or so. The directory name is a hash of the git branch name. The whole point is to avoid typing in the long directory name each time. I want to change it in the .bashrc every once in a while and have all my aliases working and copy/pastable on the fly. Displaying functions doesn't resolve substitutions any better than displaying aliases. | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 19:48 | history | edited | Kusalananda♦ |
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| Feb 17, 2023 at 19:37 | comment | added | Kusalananda♦ |
In your "Additional Example", you want to run the alias 50 times, each time with another TARGET_DIR value? That's literally what turning it into a function that takes the directory as an argument would allow you to do (see the end of my answer below). In fact, since the alias uses $TARGET_DIR unresolved, just changing this variable's value and calling the alias again would probably also work, although using a function would allow you to handle quoting better.
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| Feb 17, 2023 at 19:29 | history | edited | JS. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2023 at 19:27 | answer | added | MayeulC | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 19:21 | comment | added | Kusalananda♦ | I still don't understand what it is you want to do. Sorry. | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 19:16 | history | edited | JS. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2023 at 18:58 | answer | added | Kusalananda♦ | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 18:35 | comment | added | JS. | The only reason would be aliases are easier to implement. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try using a function instead. | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 18:33 | comment | added | Kusalananda♦ | Is there a reason you don't make this a shell function instead, with the directory as an argument (possibly with a default value)? | |
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| S Feb 17, 2023 at 18:23 | history | asked | JS. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |