In Ubuntu 11.04 or 10.04, how can I make the apt-get, apt-cache all in one myapt so that I can simply use one only, like in Fedora?
For example:
myapt search yum # same as apt-cache search
myapt remove yum # same as apt-get remove
myapt install yum # same as apt-get install
Any idea how to do alias for this?
You could create a script with the following content
#!/bin/bash
command="$1"; shift
case $command in
add|depends|dotty|dump|dumpavail|gencaches|madison|pkgnames|policy|rdepends|search|show|showpkg|showsrc|stats|unmet|xvcg)
apt-cache "$command" "$@"
;;
autoclean|autoremove|build-dep|check|clean|dist-upgrade|dselect-upgrade|install|purge|remove|source|update|upgrade)
apt-get "$command" "$@"
;;
esac
Suppose you call it myapt. Then, to still having the benefit of bash completion, you need to add the following lines to ~/.bashrc:
_myapt() {
_apt_get
tt=("${COMPREPLY[@]}")
_apt_cache
COMPREPLY+=("${tt[@]}")
return 0
} &&
complete -F _myapt $filenames myapt
Unfortunately $command should precede any options, but seems that bash completion do not works for options that follow command.
