Spaces in aliases?

[Big-Blue]

Hi...
Because my last topic got nearly instant solved, I want to ask something else. ;D
Is it possible to do aliases in BT4 (alias xon='startx') and if yes, can I do them with spaces?
Like 'startx' -> 'x on' or 'start graphical interface' to take an example.
I hope you know the answer(s)...
Bye

[Archangel-Amael]

Try # man alias or alias MAN Page
The answers are always a search away.

[Big-Blue]

Maybe it's just me or the time, but I really don't get it... I'm sure I know everything there, but didn't found anything about using spaces there.
Could someone explain it a bit further? xD

[Archangel-Amael]

Then here is another idea. Try it and see. I mean all this time you could have read the man page and tried it.

[Thorn]

Maybe it's just me or the time, but I really don't get it... I'm sure I know everything there, but didn't found anything about using spaces there.
Could someone explain it a bit further? xD

It must be you. Specifically, you not reading the alias MAN page. There are at least 10 examples on that page that show use of spaces.

[Gitsnik]

It must be you. Specifically, you not reading the alias MAN page. There are at least 10 examples on that page that show use of spaces.

I was under the impression the OP was hunting for a counter-intuitive use of an alias:

alias 'engage hyper drive' 'hd-on'

I actually don't think alias' can go that way (at least not under tcsh) - it pretty well defeats the purpose of the exercise.

OP should add ~/bin/ to his/her $PATH and then just create a bunch of two line .sh's without the .sh.

[Thorn]

OK, it could be I'm looking at it the wrong way, but in that case, it would seem that what he wants to do is create a script -not an alias- that has an argument. Said scripts would be like the scripts contained in /ect/init.d/ such as 'networking' (which as you know, is invoked as "networking start" or "networking stop", etc.)

[Archangel-Amael]

It must be you. Specifically, you not reading the alias MAN page. There are at least 10 examples on that page that show use of spaces.

Which is exactly why I gave the OP the man page and left it at that. I thought it was kind of self explanatory.
OP You can use spaces you can actually use any "any valid shell input" and yes that included spaces. More or less this means anything that can be typed into a shell via the keyboard. Since a space has to be typed it will work.
If you mean something else (like what Gitsnick implied) then I misunderstood what you wanted. So please clarify so we may further assist.