Is there a way to substitute aliases such that it is appended or prepended to an existing command in the shell?
For example, defining the alias:
alias execloc='/home/user/'
Prepending this to a command in the bash terminal:
cd exeloc/temp/somefolder
Can something like this be done, or is there a way to do it?
Best Answer
You can't do it like this because
/home/user/
is not a command. It't more like a static string.From
man bash
(somewhere at line 1984):In your case,
execloc
will never be the first word of a simple command.But, instead to define
execloc
as an alias, you can define it as an environment variable:And then you can use it everywhere you want as follow: