Home / ubuntu / Questions / 974668
Accepted
KonradDos
Asked: 2017-11-10 04:05:34 +0800 CST

How to make URL alias

  • 772

I am using subversuin to manage my project files. One thing is annoying for me. Every time I want to check out my repo I need to use "svn co "URL_TO_MY_REPOSITORY" command. The ULR is very long. I have tried to make alias of this url using alias repo='MY_URL' command. Unfortunetly it does not work.

The svn co repo command returned this error: svn: E205000: Error parsing arguments

Is there any way to make alias of URL?

alias

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    An alias is a short cut for a command , but what you want is a variable.

    Add this to ~/.bashrc

    export repo='your_url'

    Then source your .bashrc or log into a new terminal and run

    svn co $repo

    For additional information see http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/aliases.html

    Basically an alias is a full command and you are using it as a variable.

    You could of course write an alias or a function

    alias mysvn='svn co your_repo'

    You would then run

    mysvn

    but it is likely a variable is more in line with what you want.

    • 1