Question

I have quite often some very long console commands like:

python /var/www/closure-library/closure/bin/calcdeps.py \
-i myJSFile.js \
-p ../closure-library/closure/goog/ \
-o compiled \
-c /var/www//closure-compiler/build/compiler.jar \
-f "--compilation_level=ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS" \
-f "--define=goog.LOCALE='de'" > myOutputFile.js

and I would like to use simply:

closure -i myJSFile.js -o myOutputFile.js

or something simmilar. How can I do this?

Answer 1

Look up aliases in your shell’s manpage.

Perhaps something like:

alias closure='python /var/www/closure-library/closure/bin/calcdeps.py -p ../closure-library/closure/goog/ -c /var/www//closure-compiler/build/compiler.jar -f "--compilation_level=ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS" -o compiled'

Then you could do

$ closure -i myJSFile.js > myOutputFile.js