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From: steinbac@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Gunter Steinbach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ksh alias question
Message-ID: <63720024@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Oct 90 17:28:54 GMT
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In ksh, you need to declare a "function" if you want to pass parameters.
"Alias"es don't allow them.  The manual tells you how.  Then "\!*"
becomes simply "$*".

	 Guenter Steinbach		gunter_steinbach@hplabs.hp.com