RE: run batch w/o .bat?

["Barnhart, Kevin" <Kevin dot Barnhart at echostar dot com>]

Yeah, I ran into the fact that you can't use bash history commands in shell
scripts while searching through the bash docs yesterday :(  I found a number
of different ways to do what you have done below, but isn't there some way
that I can recall the last history command inside of the shell script??!!

Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Randall R Schulz [SMTP:rrschulz@cris.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 04, 2002 9:21 PM
> To:	Barnhart, Kevin; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject:	RE: run batch w/o .bat?
> 
> Kevin,
> 
> BASH's aliases do not have all the functionality of CSH/TCSH aliases. In 
> particular, they cannot access the history mechanism. If you want to do 
> more than simple left-substitution of the command name, you should use a 
> shell procedure instead.
> 
> This should be equivalent to what you're trying:
> 
> bat() {
>          batName="$1.bat"
>          shift
>          "$batName" "$@"
> }
> 
> 
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
> 
> 
> 
> At 14:46 2002-06-04, Barnhart, Kevin wrote:
> >Actually, I would settle for something like the following:
> >
> >alias 'bat'='!:0-0.bat !:1*'
> >
> >I'd like to add this into .bashrc.  Problem is that when I type in 'bat'
> at
> >the command line I get the following error:
> >bash: !:0-0.bat: command not found
> >
> >I'm tried to escape the bang with a '\', but to no avail.  If I type:
> >!:0-0.bat !:1*
> >at the command line then there is no problem--it does what is supposed
> to,
> >which is to append '.bat' to the 0-word of the previous command.
> >
> >Help?
> >
> >Kevin

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