Alias command
Jonathan I. Kamens
jik at athena.mit.edu
Mon Nov 13 16:48:29 AEST 1989
In article <29537 at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bwildasi at silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Ben
Wildasin) writes:
>I would like to modify the rm command so that it first deletes the file, and
>then copies it to my nfs directory. In other words, I would like to know
>how I can create an alias that can be passed arguments.
RTFM.
You can use history substitution in an alias. From the csh(1) man
page:
Note that the mechanism allows aliases to introduce parser
metasyntax. Thus we can `alias print 'pr \!* | lpr'' to
make a command which pr's its arguments to the line printer.
See the man page to find out how to do other, more specific
substitutions.
Also, I fail to see how an alias is first going to delete a file,
and *then* going to copy it to your NFS directory.
Finally, your second sentence (about arguments to aliases) does not
follow directly from the first, and isn't really a restatement "in
other words" of the first question. The two are related tenuously at
best....
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