HotsauceHurricanehelp writing a function or a script.
tofublNot 100% clear what you want to achieve, but you probably want an alias.
They’d have to make an alias for every Pokemon. What they need is a simple program that reads input and executes the
krabby command with that input as a parameter.
No, I don’t think they’d have to make an alias. The person you’re responding to is correct.
Assuming that the original poster wants to continue to specify which Pokemon they want to see, they’ll at least have to type that in, right?
If we’re comfortable with that as a requirement, then an alias setting “k” to equal “krabby name” will work when you enter any Pokemon name after “k”.
I suppose that’s true, though with their vague requirements, I was imagining something more like a REPL, so they could enter as many Pokemon as they wanted in a row, without needing an alias every time.
Try asking Google Gemini or chatgpt to write the code for you. Most will these days. Then you can refine it based on what you’re actually trying o achieve.
You said see link but there’s no link
goddammit i definitly added one. here:
Still not clear what you’re trying to do but assuming you’re trying to manipulate the krabby output with a different program, the other poster’s link on aliases should help you out. See the bottom section there on bash functions.
So for example if you’re trying to store a krabby output to a specific folder, something like this:
alias_name () { mkdir /path/%1 && krabby name %1 | xargs mv -t /path/%1 }
So in theory, typing something like alias_name charizard would, in this order, create a new folder at /path/charizard, run krabby charizard, and then place the output charizard file inside your new /path/charizard folder.
I say in theory because I don’t know what output krabby gives you and I don’t know bash, I just googled how piping with xargs works right now. But maybe with this idea you can figure it out.
I don’t quite understand. Do you just want to type e.g.
k pikachu and that expands to krabby name pikachu ? Can you give an example of how you’d want to use it?
Do you know about tab autocomplete?
It would probably mean that you can just enter something like
$ kra<TAB> charmander<ENTER>QoL hacks FTW.
Found this on AskUbuntu. A few different ways there with a couple being quite easy. Probably going to try one of these myself in a bit.
Arrowthis sounds like something you can do by setting up a command alias as well:
alias [pokemon name] = ‘[command and options go here]’
i.e. alias update=‘sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y’