[Nottingham] how to print to bash?

Martin Waryniak nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sat May 10 01:51:01 2003


thats the one!
*realizes his description wasnt very good....
cheers!
Martin

Robert Hart wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 00:11, Martin Waryniak wrote:
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>>Hello everybody,
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>>I am trying to figure out how I can write an alias that prints to shell.
>>Normally when declaring an alias, u give an actual command to be 
>>executed when the alias is called, so
>>alias c="cd Hello/LUG" would go into the dir when c is called.
>>I simply wnat to print something to the shell, but declarations such as
>>alias a="Hello!" do not work.
>>How can I get it to print?
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>What on earth are you on about?
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>Maybe you want something like
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>alias a="echo Hello"
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>Rob
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