From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jan 14 16:06:33 2004
Subject: Re: alias-like function?
From: Geraint Paul Bevan <g dot bevan at mech dot gla dot ac dot uk>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Hauberg?= <soren at hauberg dot org>
CC: help-octave <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:13:34 +0000

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Søren Hauberg wrote:
| Hi all,
| I'm using octave 2.1.50 on linux.
| I'm looking for something like the shell command "alias" for octave. I
| would like to have color output when typing ls. I can achive this by
| typing "ls --color" but I don't want to do this all the time. I could
| define a function
| function ls_tmp(), ls --color, end;
| but then I wouldn't be able to type "ls" I would have to type "ls_tmp"
| (or what ever the function would be called).
| So is there an alias-like command for octave?
|
| Soren
|

I don't think is possible to overload builtin functions in Octave.
However, there is a very ugly workaround you could use. If you look at
"help ls" in Octave, it tells you that "ls" uses the system command.
Therefore you can use a script to call the real 'ls' with whatever
options you want.

/usr/local/bin/ls:
#! /bin/sh
exec /bin/ls --color

Remember to make the script executable (chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ls)


- --
Geraint Bevan
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geraint.bevan

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