Re: Handy Bash alias script

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On 1/19/07, Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com> wrote:
> a.list.address@gmail.com(a.list.address@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> > On 1/19/07, cassiano <cassianoleal@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >Why not just
> > >
> > >$ echo alias aliasname=\"alias commands\" >> ~/.bashrc
> [--snip --]
> > ...and have it work?  Aliases don't support $1 or $@, do they?
>
> They do here
> alias deps='apt-cache showpkg $1'
> alias policy="apt-cache policy $1"
> alias 4page="a2ps --medium=Letter -4 $1"

Ok, but how about one with $1 not at the end?  Like:

alias testarg="echo $1 was the testarg"

I get "bell-style was the testarg blah" when I run $(testargh blah).