Can you access command line args from a source'd script?

[BURNS,JIM]

in article <801 at travis.csd.harris.com>, brad at SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Brad Appleton) says:
> 	alias mycmd "set my_argv = ( \!* ); source myfile"
> 
> Big drawback to this approach is that you have to be real carefule not
> to stomp on things in the environment since you are NOT a separate shell.

Just enclose your alias' 2nd parameter in '( and )', ala:

alias mycmd '( set my_argv = ( \!* ); source myfile )'

and you will run in a subshell.
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