[SOLVED] concatenating aliases in linux shell

Issue

I would like to concatenate aliases. So for example, if I have the following:

alias aliasone="cat"
alias aliastwo="/etc/passwd"

I would like to be able to type in the shell something like "aliasone+aliastwo" and then the following command will be executed:

cat /etc/passwd

Can this be done?

Thanks!

Solution

Aliases are only for command substitution. If you want to have shorthand for arguments, use shell variables.

file=/etc/passwd
cat "$file"

Answered By - John Kugelman

Answer Checked By - Senaida (WPSolving Volunteer)