alias -- do not pass args

alias -- do not pass args

[Roman Cheplyaka]

I want to define alias which would /not/ pass its args to program.
E.g.
$ alias foo='echo lol'
$ foo a b
should just print lol, not "lol a b". How can I do this?

I haven't found this in the manual.
-- 
Roman I. Cheplyaka

Re: alias -- do not pass args

[Frank Terbeck]

Roman Cheplyaka <roman.cheplyaka@gmail.com>:
> I want to define alias which would /not/ pass its args to program.
> E.g.
> $ alias foo='echo lol'
> $ foo a b
> should just print lol, not "lol a b". How can I do this?

Use a function for that:

[snip]
zsh% function foo() { echo bar } ; foo Hello World.
bar
[snap]

Regards, Frank

Re: alias -- do not pass args

[Tobias Gruetzmacher]

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Hi,

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 09:50:45PM +0300, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
> I want to define alias which would /not/ pass its args to program.
> E.g.
> $ alias foo='echo lol'
> $ foo a b
> should just print lol, not "lol a b". How can I do this?

Maybe end the alias with a command that swallows its arguments?

Like
 alias foo='echo lol; true'
or even
 alias foo='echo lol && true'
to get the correct exit status.

Greetings, Tobi

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Re: alias -- do not pass args

[Jean-Rene David]

* Roman Cheplyaka [2006.09.11 15:00]:
> I want to define alias which would /not/ pass its args to program.
> E.g.
> $ alias foo='echo lol'
> $ foo a b
> should just print lol, not "lol a b". How can I do this?

Well in this case the alias does not pass its args
to the program. The alias is just expanded and the
whole line is passed to 'echo' by the shell.

You could obtain what you want with a shell
function:

% foo() { echo lol; }
% foo a b
lol
% 

It doesn't make much sense to do it with an alias
anyway. Unless I'm missing something...

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