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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Subject: Re: Append command-line filespec to path in alias?
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In article <1436@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> jaw@cs.arizona.edu (Jim Wilson) writes:

       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

alias oldnews 'elm -f ~/.News/\!:1'

You could also use '\!*' or '\!:*' if you always only run the alias
with one argument.

This should be documented in the man page for csh(1) on your system,
in the section entitled "Alias substitution."  At least, that's where
it is on my system.

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