On 12/06/2016 16:33, Nico Verrijdt wrote:
Hi Andrew,
2016-06-12 16:26 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au
<mailto: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
Or just tell them to remember to add the & at the end.
With an alias what will they do when they don't want it?
Or look at it this way:
It's syntax, it's important. C is probably more syntax-critical than any
other language around (binds to the right, anyone?) so what's the
problem with requiring correct syntax on the command line as well?
Obligatory disclaimer: I've recently had a bellyache full of dumb people
who insist I put code when a human (themselves) belongs...
