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From: jaw@cs.arizona.edu (Jim Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Append command-line filespec to path in alias?
Keywords: alias, filespec
Message-ID: <1436@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 21 Apr 91 21:08:00 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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How can I write a csh alias that will pre-pend a path to a command-line
file name?

Example:
    alias oldnews 'elm -f ~/.News/<here is where I'm lost>'

Then,

     oldnews comp.unix.shell

should result in

     elm -f ~/.News/comp.unix.shell

Thanks for whatever you can offer.