On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 09:35:27AM +0300, Erez D wrote:
> hi
>
> i have in csh:
> alias vi 'gvim \!* &'
>
> i tryed translating to bash as
>
> alias vi='gvim $* &'
>
> this works without the ampersand, bit not with it
aliases are replacement text, not scripts. whatever you set in your alias
will be written as is, as if you wrote it manually. so you're basically
typing:
$ vi bla
=>
$ gvim $* & bla
> or
>
> vi() {gvim $* & ; }
the ';' is redundant, even possibly illegal.
And you always want "$@", almost never $*.
So
vi(){gvim "$@" &}
- ods15
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