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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:33:10 -0500
From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>
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Subject: Re: Adding an alias to .cshrc
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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 07:50:21PM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote:

> Hi all, happy holidays!
> 
> I want to add an alias to my .cshrc file:
> 
> alias srm   find . -name "*~" | xargs rm
> 
Your problem is quoting the command.   It has multiple parts
with white space, so it all needs to be quoted.  Something like:

  alias srm "find . -name \"*~\" | xargs rm"

////jerry


> ...so that I have an easy way to remove the temp files left by svn.
> 
> After adding the alias, logging out and then back in, I get an error
> stating:
> 
> acct-dev: ISP-RADIUS % srm
> srm: Command not found.
> 
> I thought that perhaps the file wasn't being read upon login, so I
> appended a new alias underneath:
> 
> alias srm   find . -name "*~" | xargs rm
> alias sll   ls -lA
> 
> ...which works fine when called after re-login.
> 
> I even went as far as to prefix the find/xargs command with full paths,
> to no avail.
> 
> Is this a problem with the pipe in the alias directive? The command
> works on the CLI, as I literally copy/pasted it into the .cshrc file.
> 
> Steve
> 
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