On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:17:41 -0300, rcb wrote: >> From: Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> >> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:06:11 +0000 (UTC) >> >> > does not work to do what your intuition imagine what I want it to do? >> It's not the alias but the command itself. *** >> alias muda='find . -name "*" -mtime $1' *** >> And pass the negative value "-n" as argument (e.g., "muda -2") > > > Dear Camaleón, > > That is definitely the most elegant solution. Thanks! > > I was wondering, why the "-" cannot be there? Can we "escape" it?
You're trying to assing a negative value to the argument, regardless the argument's value. My guess is that you may need to make the conversion first -using sed?- and then use the resulting output as argument. > I mean, what if it was a file name, we can always concatenate, lets say > "file-$1-$2.pdf", can't we? You mean you want to find for "file1.pdf", "file2.pdf", "filen.pdf"...? Mmm, maybe you can adapt your command line for that, for instance: *** alias muda='find . -name $1 -or -name $2 -mtime $3' *** Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/jjqco0$3nj$4...@dough.gmane.org
