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From: Sebastian Stark <seb-zsh@biskalar.de>
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Am 19.04.2011 um 15:59 schrieb Anthony R Fletcher:

> I can use suffix aliases to display various .txt files. So
>=20
> 	alias -s txt=3Dless
> 	./x.txt
>=20
> actually runs
>=20
> 	less ./x.txt
>=20
> Can I do a similar thing for README files? So the "command"
>=20
> 	/some/path/README
>=20
> will really run the command=20
>=20
> 	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=