On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Clive Standbridge <list-u...@tgstandbridges.plus.com> wrote: >> >> 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 > }
My added alias was silly... :) -- 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/CAOdo=szrk6mybrmgfs-f8g951y1hszeqg0oujzho8n+u4da...@mail.gmail.com