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From: jkh@pcsbst.UUCP (jkh)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Alias bug in BASH 1.01
Message-ID: <926@pcsbst.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 19:40:59 GMT
Reply-To: jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com ( Jordan K. Hubbard )
Organization: PCS GmbH, Pfaelzer-Wald-Str. 36, 8000 Muenchen; West-Germany
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The alias code is broken. Try the following:

bash% alias retch='echo \!*'
bash% retch foo bar blat
!* foo bar blat
bash%

The !* should expand into the current arg list, ala csh.
None of the other !<arg> constructs work in aliases either.

                                Jordan

P.S.:

function setenv () {
	eval $1=$2
	export $2
}

Works like a charm! Good job! I was all set to gripe about
not having setenv and being used to it and all, then I tried
that.. Ahem.. Never mind.

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                                Jordan Hubbard
                                PCS Computer Systeme GmbH
                                West Germany
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