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In <8906122342.AA11340@bu-cs.BU.EDU> composer@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Jeff Kellem):
> In aliases, no. (as far as I know.)

This is the way bash really wants to do things?  If the intent is to
make people use function definitions when they want argument
substitution, then fine; however, if the intent is to provide an alias
mechanism similar to that of other interactive shells, then it falls
short.  Even abbrevs in Primos allow argument substitution and
Primos is brain-damaged.  (My opinion only; if you like Primos I
really don't want to hear about it.)

I rarely use aliases in csh (far fewer than my peers seem to have) but
of the five that I have, four use the \!* mechanism to stuff things
into a pipeline.  Not having argument substitutions makes those four
useless, but I could rewrite them as functions in bash.  What is the
real intent of bash aliases?

Dave
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