> Dear Debian users,
> 
> Anyone knows why this command:
> 
> :~$ alias muda='find . -name "*" -mtime -$1'
> 
> and all this variations I tried:
[...]
> does not work to do what your intuition imagine what I want it to do?

Hi Beco,

It doesn't work because aliases don't take arguments.
You can use a shell function instead. For example,

muda()
{
   find . -name "*" -mtime -$1
}


-- 
Cheers,
Clive


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