> Dear Debian users, > > Anyone knows why this command: > > :~$ alias muda='find . -name "*" -mtime -$1' > > and all this variations I tried: [...] > does not work to do what your intuition imagine what I want it to do?
Hi Beco, It doesn't work because aliases don't take arguments. You can use a shell function instead. For example, muda() { find . -name "*" -mtime -$1 } -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120313154947.GA15377@rimmer.localdomain