Bash Scripting question

[Tymestream]

Hello,

 

I am trying to make a little feature that will save me a lot of time in the future. As many know the commands in Linux are extensive and I often forget many commands that I learned in the past - only to have to learn them again. I figured a simple tool to avoid this is to make a little .note file under my /home/user/ and make an alias that would dump what I type to it.

 

In other words:

 

At the prompt I want to type the following:

 

note Whereis - command for locating files

 

This would open my editor, input the string and close the file.

 

I can do it now, but all the alias note does is is open emacs /home/user/.note , the rest I have to input and then manually save. I am not a bash expert and I figured this would be easy enough for someone who was.

 

Appreciated.

[paul]

alias note="echo $1 >> ~/notes.txt"

then do

note "Whereis - command for locating files"

 

Notice the speech marks around the new note