passing the same file path to command after first command is done executing in an alias

Question

I am dumping make test output to a text file

make test > & ~/Desktop/makeTestOutput.txt

now I want to make an alias in a way that once the make test dumping is done the path ~/Desktop/makeTestOutput.txt should be used by next command I made fetest interpret and present readable data in Terminal.

I was thinking to do this make test > & $1 | fetest $1 make test > & $1 | fetest $1 but that doesnt pipe the file path to fetest .

Answer 1

Aliases handle arguments automatically and it is not possible to do what you want with simply using aliases. You should use functions instead. Check here for more details: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3773/how-to-pass-parameters-to-an-alias