Linux Questions

No, I don't think they'd have to make an alias for every Pokemon. The person you're responding to is correct.

Assuming that the original poster wants to continue to specify which Pokemon they want to see, they'll at least have to type that in, right?

If we're comfortable with that as a requirement, then an alias setting "k" to equal "krabby name" will work when you enter any Pokemon name after "k".

Still not clear what you're trying to do but assuming you're trying to manipulate the krabby output with a different program, the other poster's link on aliases should help you out. See the bottom section there on bash functions.

So for example if you're trying to store a krabby output to a specific folder, something like this:

alias_name () { mkdir /path/%1 && krabby name %1 | xargs mv -t /path/%1 }

So in theory, typing something like alias_name charizard would, in this order, create a new folder at /path/charizard, run krabby charizard, and then place the output charizard file inside your new /path/charizard folder.

I say in theory because I don't know what output krabby gives you and I don't know bash, I just googled how piping with xargs works right now. But maybe with this idea you can figure it out.