From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alias for eshell to grep command Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 19:09:45 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16055"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: Help Gnu Emacs To: Christopher Dimech Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 19 17:10:46 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kfmWD-00043f-6Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 17:10:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60742 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kfmWC-0002xv-8v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 11:10:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50098) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kfmVf-0002k6-O4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 11:10:11 -0500 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:48009) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kfmVd-0003fD-SN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 11:10:11 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.56]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002C1AE3.000000005FB698DE.0000022A; Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:10:06 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.85.24.50; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=static.rcdrun.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/19 06:53:12 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125382 Archived-At: * Christopher Dimech [2020-11-19 06:55]: > I would like to make an alias for eshell so I can use the command > > grep --include="*.org" --include="*.texi" -hir -C "$1" "$2" "$3" > > Have tried the following but the tactic failed. > > alias grepot 'grep --include="*.org" --include="*.texi" -hir -C "$1" > "$2" "$3"' alias grepot '\*grep --include="*.org" --include="*.texi" -hir -C "$1" "$2" "$3"' I just believe by doing above you may do that. I could see that I had to escape * in front of grep as only *grep will use the system command grep. In eshell Emacs functions have priority so $ grep alone would invoke Emacs grep and show it in the buffer. I believe you want it shown in the eshell, right?