Re: global aliases substituting *within* a path

["Manuel Presnitz" <mpy@gmx.net>]

Not an answer to your questions, but also quite handy sometimes:

$ ls aaa/**/xxx

Manuel.
 
 
 
Ronald Fischer hat am 16.05.2012 um 13:43 folgendes geschrieben:

> I have a set of directory structures like this:
> 
> aaa/foo/bar/baz/xxx
> bbb/foo/bar/baz/yyy
> ccc/foo/bar/baz/zzz
> etc.
> 
> I'm looking for a way to make typing easier on the command line, in
> order to not have to type foo/bar/baz all the time.
> 
> Of course I can achieve this by setting a shell variable in my .zshrc:
> 
> X=foo/bar/baz
> 
> Then I can do for instance
> 
>   ls aaa/$X/xxx
> 
> Now I recently learned about global aliases, which permit alias
> substitution to be done within the command line, and I thought that I
> maybe could use this. Here was my (failed) attempt:
> 
> alias -g X=foo/bar/baz
> 
> # Does NOT work at hoped
> ls aaa/X/xxx
> 
> X is not substituted, because it is not a word on its own (not
> surrounded by spaces).
> 
> My question: For my problem, do I have to stick with my original
> solution (shell variable), or is it a way to do it with aliases, or is
> there maybe an even more clever way to achieve my goal?
> 
> Ronald
> -- 
> Ronald Fischer <ronaldf@eml.cc>
> +  If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, 
> +  and the bus is interrupted and the interrupt's not caught,
> +  then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
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