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From: Sebastian Stark <seb-zsh@biskalar.de>
To: Anthony R Fletcher <arif@mail.nih.gov>
Cc: <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Suffix alias for README files
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:23:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1590CA5C-3329-4DF1-8E73-E7FE218A21D9@biskalar.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110419135909.GA21897@cosy.cit.nih.gov>


Am 19.04.2011 um 15:59 schrieb Anthony R Fletcher:

> I can use suffix aliases to display various .txt files. So
> 
> 	alias -s txt=less
> 	./x.txt
> 
> actually runs
> 
> 	less ./x.txt
> 
> Can I do a similar thing for README files? So the "command"
> 
> 	/some/path/README
> 
> will really run the command 
> 
> 	less /some/path/README

It doesn't really answer your question, but are you aware of nullcmd redirection?

  <x.txt

or

  </some/path/README

will call whatever pager or viewer is set in $READNULLCMD. In the first case it's even less characters to type :)


Sebastian

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-20 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-19 13:59 Anthony R Fletcher
2011-04-20  9:23 ` Sebastian Stark [this message]
2011-04-20 12:41   ` Anthony R Fletcher
2011-04-20 15:06     ` Bart Schaefer
2011-04-20 16:44       ` Anthony R Fletcher
2011-04-20 17:25       ` John Eikenberry
2011-04-20 18:40         ` ZyX
2011-04-20 18:57           ` John Eikenberry
2011-04-20 19:22             ` ZyX

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