Continuing our tutorial on tcsh aliases we look at combining aliases with history substitutions. Both aliases and history substitutions are useful tools, but it may not be obvious that they work well together. The tcsh man page says: After a command line is parsed into simple commands
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We’ve seen how to write tcsh aliases and how using history substitution commands can transform aliases into relatively sophisticated tools. But aliases have their limitations, particularly when a command needs to be used as the input to another program. We have developed a tool called tcshParser to
Read more →Although bash is the default shell on many systems, many Linux users still choose to use tcsh (the newer name for csh) because of the more powerful alias capabilities. Aliases let you create shortcuts to longer commands, which can save you time, but using them can lead
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I’ve been using tar for more years than I care to remember, and most of the time I get by with just a handful of options. And if I can’t remember, well I can google it as easily as anyone else. The XKCD comic ‘tar’ reassures me
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