Re: [Hampshire] bash error

G'day Owain,

I'm slightly surprised that works at all without a semicolon :-)

On 26/02/2021 09:23, Owain Clarke via Hampshire wrote:
> Hi.  Could someone help me with the error of my ways?  I'm sure this one
> is dead simple but I can't see it.
> I have this alias:-
>     alias my_alias='cd ~/somedirectory && ristretto * & geany progress &'
>
> The ristretto bit works as expected, but I thought that the text file
> that opened would be ~/somedirectory/progress, but instead it creates
> ~/progress.  What's wrong with my syntax?
>
> Thanks
>
> Owain
>
>

My guess is that the && is tying together 'cd ~/somedirectory &&
ristretto * &' which then is backgrounded; 'geany progress &' is invoked
separately (from whichever directory you issued the alias) and backgrounded.

Did you mean to do something like

'cd ~/somedirectory && ristretto * && geany progress &'

or

'cd ~/somedirectory && (ristretto * & geany progress &)'

instead?

Cheers

Brad