"Bob Tilley (AT&T)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I wish to use the expression "catl <filename>" to execute the
> commands "cat <filename> | less".
>
> Is it possible to use 'alias' in the definition?
>
> "alias catl='cat $0 | less'" seems like a good idea, but I don't
> know if the '$0' works in a simple alias.
I think in Bourne-style shells (bash, ash, ksh, zsh), you almost
always want to use shell functions instead of aliases:
catl() { cat "$@" | less }
(Where "$@" is sh-ish for "all of the rest of the command-line
arguments, quoted correctly".)
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