Append command-line filespec to path in alias?
Jonathan I. Kamens
jik at athena.mit.edu
Mon Apr 22 09:35:04 AEST 1991
In article <1436 at caslon.cs.arizona.edu> jaw at cs.arizona.edu (Jim Wilson) writes:
alias oldnews 'elm -f ~/.News/<here is where I'm lost>'
Then,
oldnews comp.unix.shell
should result in
elm -f ~/.News/comp.unix.shell
alias oldnews 'elm -f ~/.News/\!:1'
You could also use '\!*' or '\!:*' if you always only run the alias
with one argument.
This should be documented in the man page for csh(1) on your system,
in the section entitled "Alias substitution." At least, that's where
it is on my system.
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