Randall R Schulz wrote:

> Aliases don't take positional parameters, at least not in BASH (I think 
> they do in the Csh family, if I recall correctly). They simply expanded 
> verbatim in front of any arguments you give, so if you invoke it 
> with "/dev/hda7" as an argument, it's like running this command:

<Smacks forehead>

Yes, Randall is right. I took a lazy shortcut and did this instead:

for i in `cat drives`; do tune2fs -l $i | grep volume; done

which of course worked....

Joe

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