Hello,

Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, 2015-12-20 at 15:00 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> Remark: Working with aliases seems to be a bit sophisticated :-)
>
> Not really. IIRC aliases predate functions. They were first introduced
> in the C Shell (seeĀ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_(command)) and
> are thus more limited.
at least in (t)csh

alias foo 'echo "par=\!^"'

would have worked as the OP expected.

Regards
hmw

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