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Is there a way I can use .bash_aliases in a shell-scripts? [duplicate]
Is there a way I can use bash aliases from my .bash_aliases file within a shell-scripts?
I thought of something like including
source "$HOME/.bash_aliases into my script
but it does not work.
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How to show help for some bash command in less (like man do) rather than print it to console
For example, there is no manual pages for trap command. Running:
man trap
will give:
No manual entry for trap
Running:
trap --help
will print help straight to bash console without using less like ...
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Unix Command (and bash alias) or script to band/unban IP addresses in Fail2ban without having to lookup and specify "jail name"
I am creating a bash alias (or possibly a script) to ban and unban IP addresses with fail2ban on Ubuntu 20.04.
The bash syntax I am using to unban IP address is:
fail2ban-client set YOURJAILNAMEHERE ...
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Order in which files within /etc/profile.d are sourced in CentOS 7.9? (for defining aliases)
I have a question related to aliases/environment variables on CentOS 7.9. I am trying to make an alias for ll with:
echo 'alias ll="ls -alhF --color=auto"' > /etc/profile.d/Z-alias-ll.sh
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use aliases in bash script
I use aliases in my code, it works the first time and shows the current time, but the second time, when I call it shows past time(time showed before instead of current time)
GNU nano 6.2 ...
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Minify bash command with arguments
Want to minify bash command using arguments.
I am often checking the internet provider's and other Free and Public DNS Servers with the code below running in tmux, but wondering, how this can be ...
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How do I make an alias for a command with sudo
I want to add two aliases, so one executes a command when non sudo, and the other executes a command when sudo, like this:
alias v = 'nvim'
alias 'sudo v' = 'sudo -E nvim '
I also have set alias sudo=...
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bashrc + why source not refresh the .bashrc file
we add the following line to bashrc file
alias reboot="echo you not allowed to do reboot on this machine - sorry"
so we get
more ~/.bashrc
# .bashrc
# User specific aliases and functions
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How to evaluate bash alias before being passed to bash function?
I have defined a test alias as:
alias testalias='python3 -c "f = open(\"/tmp/testopenfile\", \"w+\"); f.write(\"hi\n\")"'
It works fine when I run it directly ...
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Kali Linux - run './pycharm.sh' by running 'pycharm' in terminal
Currently I need to access the folder in my desktop, and then a bin subfolder to reach ./pycharm.
So I want to automate all of:
cd Desktop
cd pycharm-community-2021.3.1
cd bin
./pycharm.sh
to
pycharm
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Is escaping shell aliases in scripts useful when executing scripts?
Does escaping bash aliases make any sense in any - not sourced and normally run - shell scripts?
Consider the simplest situation with ls for which many users have re-defined its functioning with an ...
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How to set an environmental variable from another script?
I set a variable WORKSPACE="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)" in ~/.bashrc - which essentially sets $WORKSPACE to the root of the git repository
so that I can write alias for some of the ...
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How to make .bashrc alias that runs an .sh file containing a second alias, and then runs that second alias?
Is it possible for me to do what is described in the title?
Lets say I have a script "initstuff.sh" and within that script there is an alias "shalias" that runs some stuff. Putting ...
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How to make bash alias work with command inclusion i.e. $() (the dollar sign and parenthesis)
I used to have aliases like:
alias mount-open="sudo mount $(sudo blkid | gawk '/2tb-open/ { print substr($1, 0, 9) }') 2tb-open"
I can't be 100% sure that it was the same, but 100% it was a ...
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alias inside a script returns command not found
Using bash in a Debian system.
bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later &...
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