Solved Help with aliases

[balanga]

I want to set up an alias in .cshrc to do something like

png 'x' ping -c3 192.168.1.'x'

where 'x can be any number, so that entering png 3 will run ping -c3 192.168.1.3.

Is this doable?

 

[nxjoseph]

I don't know how to do that in alias but i guess you can try function. This works in bash but i am not sure if this can work for csh too.

png() {
ping -c${1} 192.168.1.${1}
}

 

[VladiBG]

~/png.sh

echo "ping -c$1 192.168.1.$1";

sh png.sh 1

ping -c1 192.168.1.1

ee ~/.cshrc

alias png sh png.sh

When you got the idea replace "echo" with the actual command

ping -c$1 192.168.1.$1;

If you want to pass 2 parameters you can use

ping -c$1 192.168.1.$2;

then
png 1 10
will do
ping -c1 192.168.1.10

 

[Charlie_]

alias png ping -c\!^ 192.168.1.\!$
png 1 # ping -c1 192.168.1.1
png 1 2 # ping -c1 192.168.1.2

 

[balanga]

alias png ping -c\!^ 192.168.1.\!$
png 1 # ping -c1 192.168.1.1
png 1 2 # ping -c1 192.168.1.2

Excellent! I wouldn't have been able to work that out for myself, although I wanted -c3 so I've added

alias png ping -c3 192.168.1.\!$

to my ~/.cshrc

 

[balanga]

Excellent! I wouldn't have been able to work that out for myself, although I wanted -c3 so I've added

alias png ping -c3 192.168.1.\!$

to my ~/.cshrc

How would I write that as an sh alias?