On 2007/07/28 14:46 (GMT-0700) joe apparently typed:
> 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:
> 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....
Not for me. I put that in a script, and got 'cat: drives: No such file or
directory', and get a syntax error unexpected token from an alias. :-(
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