Re: Alias call in function fails...

[Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>]

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On 6/23/20 3:14 PM, Perry Smith wrote:
> I’d really appreciate if you could give a few examples of this.

Here's a different example of how I used a global (-g) alias:

% alias -g PTBONE="-R 127.0.0.1:3128:127.0.0.1:3128"
% ssh PTBONE host.example.net

PTBONE is an alias that has the long string of options substituted in 
it's place.

I chose a global alias because I rarely wanted the PTBONE configuration 
on my ssh connections.  But I wanted it often enough that typing out the 
full thing was a PITA.  I felt like adding PTBONE /when/ I wanted it was 
a reasonable compromise.

Backstory:  I was periodically updating a bunch of Red Hat systems that 
were configured to use a proxy on localhost (127.0.0.1 to avoid ::1 
confusion).  Said proxy was created by OpenSSH's remote port forwarding 
back to a local (caching) proxy like Squid.  PTBONE is short for Proxy 
Trombone, as a reference / nod to what the traffic does.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die


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