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From: Tobias Gruetzmacher <tobias@portfolio16.de>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: alias -- do not pass args
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:02:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060911190245.GA19657@portfolio16.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060911185045.GA15092@localdomain>

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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-11 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-11 18:50 Roman Cheplyaka
2006-09-11 19:02 ` Frank Terbeck
2006-09-11 19:02 ` Tobias Gruetzmacher [this message]
2006-09-11 19:11 ` Jean-Rene David

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