At 2008-06-26T05:04:52-07:00, Juri Mianovich wrote: > I am trying to use this alias in my root .cshrc file: > > grep $1 /some/file > > but .cshrc _refuses_ to expand $1 as a proper variable (in this > case, the first argument to the alias...) > > I _think_ it's because $1 is being interpreted as a argument to csh > _itself_ when it runs .cshrc ... but maybe I'm wrong. > > Anyway, how to make it work ?
See the tcsh(1) section `Alias substitution': "If the alias contains a history reference, it undergoes History substitution (q.v.) as though the original command were the previous input line." [riemann:/home/raghu]% alias foo "grep \!^ /etc/passwd" [riemann:/home/raghu]% foo toor toor:*:0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root: [riemann:/home/raghu]% alias bar "grep \!:1 \!:2" [riemann:/home/raghu]% bar '^man' /etc/passwd man:*:9:9:Mister Man Pages:/usr/share/man:/usr/sbin/nologin HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
