dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) (04/20/89)
This has probably been answered a zillion times, but... Why doesn't the CSH alias: alias foo "echo $1 hello $2" give the expected results: % foo a b a hello b % Instead it gives: % foo a b hello a b % This is the result on 4.3BSD VAX, Ultrix 2.2 and some version of KSH. A friend wanted an alias of: % alias ff "find $1 -name $2 -print" but the best I could come up with was: % alias ff "find \!^ -name \!$ -print" Even \!1 and \!2 don't work (I guess they grab real events and not alias args, but then why do \!^ and \!$ work ?). Please email responses. Thanks. Cheers, Dan Ts'o 212-570-7671 Dept. Neurobiology dan@rna.rockefeller.edu Rockefeller Univ. ...cmcl2!rna!dan 1230 York Ave. rna!dan@nyu.edu NY, NY 10021 tso@rockefeller.arpa tso@rockvax.bitnet