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From: mjo@irie.ais.org (Mike O'Connor)
Subject: Re: Append command-line filespec to path in alias?
Message-ID: <1991Apr21.223523.12623@engin.umich.edu>
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Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@ais.org>
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References: <1436@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1991 22:35:23 GMT

In article <1436@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> jaw@cs.arizona.edu (Jim Wilson) writes:
: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>'

The missing magic is:

alias oldnews 'elm -f ~/.News/\!^'




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