On 1/19/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> On 1/19/07, cassiano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Why not just
> >
> >$ echo alias aliasname=\"alias commands\" >> ~/.bashrc
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> ...and have it work?  Aliases don't support $1 or $@, do they?

They do here
alias deps='apt-cache showpkg $1'
alias policy="apt-cache policy $1"
alias 4page="a2ps --medium=Letter -4 $1"

Ok, but how about one with $1 not at the end?  Like:

alias testarg="echo $1 was the testarg"

I get "bell-style was the testarg blah" when I run $(testargh blah).


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