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From: drew@decwrl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Shell 2.06 Problems
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Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 01:34:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 17 01:34:00 1987
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>Me too, and I have noticed that the following doesn't work in Shell 2.06m:
>
>  $ alias l "%i ls -lb $i"
>  $ l *.c

>(where 'ls' is Manx's).
>
>In a previous version (I don't remember the rev. number), the alias would
>behave as expected, listing all .c files.

>With Shell2.06M, this combination no longer works, but

>   $ l "*.c"

>will.

>-scott


This bug and others have all been fixed in 2.07M, which I'll probably
send out next week.
But, Scott you don't need to alias it that way (using a variable) unless
you need variable insertion in the middle of a command line. In your
case it's easier, and gets arround the bug by doing:

alias l "ls -lb"

'l *.c' will now work.

Steve Drew.