Hi all,
A bit off topic here, but there are plenty of people who seem to know
their shells back to front so here goes.
I have set up a Win32 based development environment,
bash/cc/ls/etc/etc, for 1st year Engineering students who have to learn
C on a command line. It's fine for me to remember to put the & at the
end of the command when I fire up the editor but for them, it's major
angst.
The first thing that comes to mind is an alias. Just off the top of my
head I tried:
alias "npp=npp %1 &"
npp being the editor, but that didn't work. Is an alias the best/easiest
way to do this and if so, what would the syntax be, or is there a better
way?
Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,
Andrew
