Hi Andrew, 2016-06-12 16:26 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au>:
> 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 &" > Shouldn't this be: 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 > > Hope this helps, Nico
