Is it possible to make compound aliases in bash?

Asked Sep 26 '18 at 23:21

Active Sep 26 '18 at 23:26

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I am trying to make some aliases to make my workflow easier, and I'm having some issues with variables resolving too quickly.

This example helps illustrate the issue:

# ~/.zshrc
export WORKSPACEHOST="localhost"
alias swloc="export WORKSPACEHOST='localhost'"
alias swrem1="export WORKSPACEHOST='16.42.42.192'"
alias swrem2="export WORKSPACEHOST='16.42.43.12'"

alias getclusterinfo="curl -X http://$WORKSPACEHOST:3080/info > /tmp/info.json; open /tmp/info.json"
... And a bunch more of these types of commands

The intention is that I can use swrem1 to switch the functionality of getclusterinfo, but it turns out that getclusterinfo is hard set to localhost at the time of the sourcing of ~/.zshrc.

What is the correct way to solve this so that aliases lazily reference the current value of the environment variable?

edited Sep 26 '18 at 23:26

asked Sep 26 '18 at 23:21

SwimBikeRun

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You have two `swrem1` aliases. – Barmar Sep 26 '18 at 23:24
Use single quotes around the `getclusterinfo` alias so the variable won't be expanded when it's being defined. – Barmar Sep 26 '18 at 23:25
Ah single quotes! Great! This is the answer and thanks for the info page! – SwimBikeRun Sep 26 '18 at 23:27

Is it possible to make compound aliases in bash?

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