I was recently doing some work with gzip’d files. It got kind of repetitive to keep typing
gunzip file head file gzip file
I know there is a zcat but I don’t want to have to type
zcat file | head
everytime.
You can create aliases in your .bashrc file. These are quick shortcut commands.
The following does not work
alias zhead='zcat $1 | head' #does NOT work
In order for this to work you have to create a function in your .bashrc and call it from the alias.
function zh(){ zcat $1 | head } alias zhead='zh'