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From: kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: A question of aliases...
Message-ID: <43200077@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>
Date: 21 Apr 89 12:41:00 GMT
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>/* Written 10:06 pm  Apr 19, 1989 by dan@rna.UUCP in uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu:comp.bugs.4bsd */
> Why doesn't the CSH alias:
>	alias foo "echo $1 hello $2"
> give the expected results:
>	% foo a b
>	a hello b
>				Dan Ts'o		212-570-7671
>				Dept. Neurobiology	dan@rna.rockefeller.edu
>				Rockefeller Univ.	...cmcl2!rna!dan

Try something like:
	alias foo 'set argv = ( \!* ); echo $1 hello $2'
This does what you want (on 4.3 BSD).


Patrick Wolfe  (pat@kai.com,  kailand!pat)
System Manager, Kuck & Associates, Inc.