I did a research and found some solutions but none of them worked for me... Maybe could you help me ? I've 2 exec : prog1 and prog2. (ksh) I would like to run them, at the same time with the alias "e"
So I did this:
e TEST
It should be translated by
prog1 TEST
prog2 TEST
I tried :
ALIAS e='prog1 $1; prog2 $1'
OR
e() {
prog1 $1 | prog2 $1
}
Without success.
Do you have any solutions?
The function should work but you separate commands with a semicolon, not a pipe. Or just put them on separate lines - newline is a valid command separator, too.
e() {
prog1 $1
prog2 $1
}
You should properly have double quotes around $1, and in the general case, you should cope if there is more than one parameter; use "$@" to pass on the entire parameter list, or loop over the parameters:
e() {
local a
for a; do
prog1 "$a"
prog2 "$a"
done
}