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From: fischer@utower.gopas.sub.org (Axel Fischer)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: alias question
Message-ID: <74NQU-@utower.gopas.sub.org>
Date: 18 Dec 89 12:20:18 GMT
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chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey) writes:

>You're right.  It's not like csh, it's like ksh.  ksh and bash aliases do
>not take arguments; they are simple textual replacements.  What you're doing
>up there is moving all of the command line args you gave bash along with
>/usr/spool/limbo to foo.
>This is what functions are for (modulo bugs, of course :-)

Thanks ! I've hoped there is a way with alias.
With functions it is no problem, but if you don't have 1.04 :-)

-Axel
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