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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
