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user339827
user339827

Reputation:

Creating an alias for my script thru Makefile

I was wondering if is there any way to set up an alias on user's ~/.bash_aliases thru a Makefile.

Let's say I have a bash script called foo.sh which prints what you've passed to it. E.g.:

Input
sh foo.sh bar

Output
bar

Now, on my Makefile I want to have a something like:

install:
    @echo "alias foo=sh foo.sh $@" << ~/.bash_aliases

So everytime user does make install it will automatically have the foo alias available. Then, instead of doing the last input, we would have something like:

Input
foo bar

Output
bar

Does anyone know if it's possible to do such thing?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1430

Answers (2)

uml&#228;ute
uml&#228;ute

Reputation: 31274

are you sure you want to add the same line to the user's ~/.bash_aliases everytime they run your Makefile?

and what about users who don't use bash but another shell, like zsh?

and what about other users? if the admin types make install, they usually expect the "installation" to be available to each and every user of the system, not just themselves.

if you only care about making your script foo.sh available as foo, then you probably should install a binary called foo.

install:
    $(INSTALL) foo.sh $(bindir)/foo

btw, Debian policy mandates scripts to be installed without .sh extension. i think this is a hint that one generally shouldn't install with script suffixes.

Upvotes: 1

Nikolai Popov
Nikolai Popov

Reputation: 5675

What about:

install:
    @echo "alias foo=foo.sh" >> ~/.bash_aliases

Upvotes: 0

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