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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: Alias command
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Date: 13 Nov 89 05:48:29 GMT
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In article <29537@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bwildasi@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Ben
Wildasin) writes:
>I would like to modify the rm command so that it first deletes the file, and
>then copies it to my nfs directory. In other words, I would like to know
>how I can create an alias that can be passed arguments.

  RTFM.

  You can use history substitution in an alias.  From the csh(1) man
page:

     Note that the mechanism allows aliases to introduce parser
     metasyntax.  Thus we can `alias print 'pr \!* | lpr'' to
     make a command which pr's its arguments to the line printer.

See the man page to find out how to do other, more specific
substitutions.

  Also, I fail to see how an alias is first going to delete a file,
and *then* going to copy it to your NFS directory.

  Finally, your second sentence (about arguments to aliases) does not
follow directly from the first, and isn't really a restatement "in
other words" of the first question.  The two are related tenuously at
best....

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