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From: steinbac@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Gunter Steinbach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ksh alias question (I'm not proud)
Message-ID: <63720004@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: 1 May 89 23:02:03 GMT
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Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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    No, aliases don't take positional arguments in kshell like they do in
    cshell, you have to use a "function" instead.  See the ksh man page for
    how to make one.  Here is a working version of what you wanted to do:

    function G { cd `grep $1 /usr/local/ut/paths`;}

    And don't forget the "trailing" semicolon.
    
    Good luck  -  Gunter Steinbach