From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
To: TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh MailingList <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: suffix alias where the app has a space in it
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 12:50:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190808115026.ctryk6bsvckxj7cq@chaz.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADjGqHv7H6xsYHYwNwD49LEQsHWw4DdzBtpFK=C=umLGDNdZEQ@mail.gmail.com>
2019-08-08 07:14:21 -0400, TJ Luoma:
> I'm trying to use suffix aliases, but I ran into one issue I can't
> figure out: What do I do when I want to assign "The Unarchiver" as an
> app for archives such as .xz
>
> alias -s xz="the unarchiver"
>
> But that tries to use 'the' to open 'xz' files.
>
> Is there a way to encode a space in the app name?
>
> I tried googling but either the terms are too vague or no one has
> written about this before.
[...]
alias replacement is token replacement before parsing of the
syntax. That applies to suffix aliases as well. You can even do
something as crazy as:
alias -s xz='for cmd (echo "the unarchiver") $cmd'
And when you enter:
foo.xz
that gets replaced with
for cmd (echo "the unarchiver") $cmd foo.xz
In your case, just do:
alias -s "xz='the unarchiver'"
--
Stephane
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-08 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2019-08-08 11:14 ` TJ Luoma
2019-08-08 11:47 ` Peter Stephenson
2019-08-08 12:09 ` TJ Luoma
2019-08-08 17:40 ` TJ Luoma
2019-08-08 21:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2019-08-08 11:50 ` Stephane Chazelas [this message]
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