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Re: Suffix alias for README files

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From: Sebastian Stark <seb-zsh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Anthony R Fletcher <arif@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Suffix alias for README files
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:23:07 +0200
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Am 19.04.2011 um 15:59 schrieb Anthony R Fletcher:

> I can use suffix aliases to display various .txt files. So
> 
> 	alias -s txt=less
> 	./x.txt
> 
> actually runs
> 
> 	less ./x.txt
> 
> Can I do a similar thing for README files? So the "command"
> 
> 	/some/path/README
> 
> will really run the command 
> 
> 	less /some/path/README

It doesn't really answer your question, but are you aware of nullcmd redirection?

  <x.txt

or

  </some/path/README

will call whatever pager or viewer is set in $READNULLCMD. In the first case it's even less characters to type :)


Sebastian

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