have you tried “printmycnf /etc/my.cnf” after alias command?

On my system;
$ alias printmycnf=’awk -F= “! /(^#|^$)/ { if (\$2 != \”\”) printf \”%-34s = %s\n\”, \$1,\$2; else printf \”%s\n\”, \$1 }”‘
$ printmycnf /etc/my.cnf

works like a charm.

ps: don’t forget to replace single quote and double quote. better yet, just type it in manually.

Yeah, the “,’,` characters gets altered from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 probably. Copy and paste the code and just replace those characters with proper ones. Then all should work fine.

-jacob

alias printmycnf=.awk -F= .! /(^#|^$)/ { if (\$2 != \.\.) printf \.%-34s = %s\n\., \$1,\$2; else printf \.%s\n\., \$1 }..

Did you copy and paste from somewhere weird, like a word document or something? I tried to modify it back to what it should be:

alias printmycnf=’awk -F= “! /(^#|^$)/ { if (\$2 != \”\”) printf \”%-34s = %s\n\”, \$1,\$2; else printf \”%s\n\”, \$1 }”‘

But when I ran it (RHEL 4.8) it just hung. I’ve tried inserting the perl string as an alias and doing various things to escape the quotes w/l much luck.

I guess I could just put the command into a shell script for now.

alias printmycnf=’awk -F= “! /(^#|^$)/ { if (\$2 != \”\”) printf \”%-34s = %s\n\”, \$1,\$2; else printf \”%s\n\”, \$1 }”‘

you can replace with perl one-liner where awk is.

-jacob

alias printmycnf=[insert perl one-liner]

I would like to add something like this to my .bashrc:

alias printmycnf=

but no amount of quote hacking is getting it to work.

Or has someone refactored it has a perl script? I think I could do that, but my first attempt was taking longer than 5 minutes so I thought I would ask.

Thanks