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Re: magic needed: alias concatenation of $1
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: magic needed: alias concatenation of $1 |
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Fri, 03 May 2002 19:20:05 -0400 |
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I wrote:
> ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu (ivo welch) wrote:
>> alias tryme="$PWD/$1"
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> alias tryme='"$PWD/$1"'
> This happens to work
Er, no, it doesn't. Aliases don't have positional parameters at all,
so you have to use a function. Here is what happens to work, but
might be by accident:
alias foo='"$bar"'
bar=true
foo; echo $?
bar=false
foo; echo $?
paul