Writing alais....

[msenthil]

Hi all,

i want to open an file in new xterm window......

for this i have to give command in command line as..

xterm -e vim <file name> &

The above mentioned command i have to run like this,
xrun <file name>

for this how should i write alias for "xrun"


Thanks in advance....

[matsp]

If we ignore the problem of adding an ampersand (&) at the end:

alias xrun "xterm -e vim"

then do "xrun myfile &" and it will do what you wanted.

When I searched "man bash alias", I found that there's no way to have arguments for the alias, so if you really want to add the ampersand, you'll have to write a shell-script (or use csh - if that's available in your Linux installation - bash is the default and most common shell).

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Mats