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I used to use CShell (csh), which lets you make an alias that takes a parameter. The notation was something like
alias junk="mv \\!* ~/.Trash" In Bash, this does not seem to work. Given that Bash has a multitude of useful features, I would assume that this one has been implemented but I am wondering how.
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Bash users need to understand that alias cannot take arguments and parameters. But we can use functions to take arguments and parameters while using alias commands.
You can replace $@ with $1 if you only want the first argument. This creates a temporary function f , which is passed the arguments. Alias arguments are only passed at the end. Note that f is called at the very end of the alias.
Bash alias does not directly accept parameters. You will have to create a function.
alias does not accept parameters but a function can be called just like an alias. For example:
myfunction() { #do things with parameters like $1 such as mv "$1" "$1.bak" cp "$2" "$1" } myfunction old.conf new.conf #calls `myfunction` By the way, Bash functions defined in your .bashrc and other files are available as commands within your shell. So for instance you can call the earlier function like this
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