Cmder: Create alias with equal sign gets truncated in cmder cli
Hey there as per title, when I try in cmder prompt to create an alias with an equal sign, what comes with the = gets truncated and not correctly stored in the user-aliases.cmd file.
For ex:
λ alias wifi=netsh wlan show profile $1 key=clear
will be stored as:
wifi=netsh wlan show profile $1 ke
I guess for $reasons cmder reads y=clear as $something worthy evaluating and so it's cut off from the actual alias storing process. Manually editing the file quickly overcome this issue.
Am I blatantly missing something on the ever growing Effin' Manual that I haven't accurately read? 😛
GlassGruber
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It looks like the doskey command (which alias wraps) handles your example, so this may be a bug in the alias.bat script.
You can debug by modifying alias.bat and changing the first line to @echo on. Looking at it now, I see that there is a point where the script splits the alias string using "=" as a delimiter, and assumes that there will only be one = in the string.
Here's a fix: in alias.bat, find the linethat says ":: validate alias" and in the following line replace the '2' with a '*', like so:
for /f "delims== tokens=1,* usebackq" %%G in (echo "%_x%") do (
This seems to work for me with your example.
glucas
on 8 Feb 2017
Thank you for explaining in detail the issue at hand, very useful for me as I'm a novice in CMD stuff! :)
I can confirm your correction fixed the problem, thank you! Should I do a PR?
GlassGruber
on 9 Feb 2017
I can create a pull request with the fix. Thanks for confirming that it works for you.
glucas
on 9 Feb 2017
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It looks like the doskey command (which alias wraps) handles your example, so this may be a bug in the alias.bat script.
You can debug by modifying alias.bat and changing the first line to
@echo on. Looking at it now, I see that there is a point where the script splits the alias string using "=" as a delimiter, and assumes that there will only be one = in the string.Here's a fix: in alias.bat, find the linethat says ":: validate alias" and in the following line replace the '2' with a '*', like so:
for /f "delims== tokens=1,* usebackq" %%G in (
echo "%_x%") do (This seems to work for me with your example.