Re: defining an alias in .bashrc

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 11:05:00AM -0800, peter_easthope@gulfnet.sd64.bc.ca wrote:
> The .bashrc contains this definition.
> 
> alias mantxt='man -Tlatin1 $* | col -bx > $*.txt'

Aliases can't use $*. Try a shell function instead:

  mantxt () {
    man -Tlatin1 $* | col -bx > $*.txt
  }

Either of these will fail with multiple arguments or arguments
containing spaces. You'd need a for loop and better quoting to cope with
those.

> Submitting mantxt dpkg gives this.
> 
> bash: col -bx: command not found

Install the bsdmainutils package.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]