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yoel neuman
yoel neuman

Reputation: 133

How to Parse Command Line Arguments in a Cmder Alias

I have created an alias to open an older git version of a file in sublime text.

My alias accepts 2 arguments, $1 is the revision and $2 is the file path, but I would like to parse the arguments to get the file extension of the file to open it in its correct format.

My existing code is here:

revise=git show $1:$2 > redirected.txt $T C:/PROGRA~1/SUBLIM~2/sublime_text.exe redirected.txt

However I would like to to something like:

revise=git show $1:$2 > redirected.{$2.extesnion} $T   C:/PROGRA~1/SUBLIM~2/sublime_text.exe redirected.{$2.extesnion}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1476

Answers (1)

user14715449
user14715449

Reputation: 11

environment details:

  • cmder version: 1.3.15.1010

in cmd.exe session you can read parameters from the command line using the $* placeholder to get everything that comes after the alias, alias example:

vi=vim $*

alias usage:

D:\
λ vi test.txt

Or you can read space-delimited argument using placeholders $1, $2, $n... alias example:

example= echo param one: $1    param two: $2

alias usage:

D:\
λ example hi how are you?

alias result:

param one: hi    param two: how

note -are- and -you?- where no echoed

Upvotes: 1

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