| Eric at Lucii.org on 1 Oct 2011 20:51:24 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] saw this on /. this morning. |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey Ryan, I did write this as a function and briefly tested it just to see if it would work. It does. If I were to run it in my home directory [almost 300 Gigabytes] it would be a long time before I got an answer. Your mileage may vary. Here's what I use in this case: locate string | sort locate has already searched your hard drive (via a cron task) and built an index. Taking advantage of that is way more reasonable than searching in real time... unless you need a real-time answer. If I want to limit it to the "data" branch of my home directory then I'd do this: locate string |grep ~eric/data | sort Way, way faster. Eric On 10/01/2011 09:41 PM, Paul Jungwirth wrote: > On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Ryan T. Sawyer <sawyer07+plug@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is there an equivalent to this in Bash? >> >> alias lsr 'ls -R | grep \!* | sort' > > In general, I think with bash it's easier to write functions rather > than aliases. If you create a file with your functions for > command-line shortcuts, you can source it in your .bash_profile. (Or > just define the functions in .bash_profile itself.) If you create a > function named lsr, you can use $1, and you can call it just like > using an alias. > > Paul > - -- # Eric Lucas # # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth # And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6H364ACgkQ2sGpvXQrZ/7g8ACfRYgQDzbWppNSdk88lzq6gEC4 d2IAnR/NIMJ44ZnkYyUbQ+n6Eqaryq6t =3cS9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug