Korn Shell

Sam Lok ssl at ptsfa.UUCP
Wed Mar 11 03:30:48 AEST 1987


In article <14672 at sun.uucp> guy at sun.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>>Is there a way to pass parameters into aliases in Korn Shell?  That is, in
>>Berkely, I would use something on the order of '!*';
>>is there something equivalent for ksh?
>The C shell uses aliases both to perform command aliasing and to
>provide "built-in" shell scripts.  The Bourne and Korn shells use
>"shell functions" to do the latter.

Ksh support both alias and function. To answer the original question,
the answer is 'yes', try '$*' or '$@'.


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