From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jan 14 16:37:17 2004
Subject: Re: alias-like function?
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Hauberg?= <soren at hauberg dot org>
To: help-octave <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:36:21 +0100

Wov! That's quite a hack :-)
The problem is that I don't have root access to all the machines I work 
with, so it's not really an option.

Soren

Geraint Paul Bevan wrote:
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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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