Aliases are great, but it sucks when you need to mix arguments into certain parts of the command rather than after the alias itself.
There are some things we type on a regular basis which cant be put into aliases. An example would be the command I use to clone from git.
git clone git@git.server.com:git_project_name.git clone_name I would of liked to use an alias in this way:
alias_name git_project_name clone_name But when executed, it'll come out as:
git clone git@git.server.com:.git git_project_name clone_name For this, I've resorted to writing a script called "clone_git.sh".
#! /bin/bash
# script to git clone
PROJECT=$1
shift
SEARCH="git clone git@git.server.com:$PROJECT.git $@"
echo $SEARCH
$SEARCH
Using the script with this syntax:
./clone_git.sh project_name clone_name arg1 arg2 arg3 Will produce:
git clone git@git.server.com:project_name.git clone_name arg1 arg2 arg3 The shift command removes the first argument off the list, so "project_name" will be removed from "$@".
Now if you dont require a variable number of arguments, you can simplify the script by removing the $PROJECT variable, removing shift and replacing "$@" with "$2".
The script will now look like:
#! /bin/bash
# script to git clone
SEARCH="git clone git@git.server.com:$1.git $2"
echo $SEARCH
$SEARCH Calling the script with the same syntax will now produce:
git clone git@git.server.com:project_name.git clone_name
