continue the $n series if you think you'll ever want to pass more than 4 arguments.

bash and similar :
alias ll='ls -l $@'

this passes ALL arguments; no need to add anything more.

This message has been edited by damien_s_lucifer on July 17, 2001 at 02:32 PM

alias ll -ũ ls -l -a ũ

or something to that extent. Let me give you a real world example:

alias (ael def) (ael def -lm1)

please ignore the (), I put them there just to show you want is the first part and what is the second part. See if someon types ael def, I want to automatically at that -lm1. But, if someone types ael, I don't want the -lm1 added since it wouldn't work with the def part.

What you're essentially saying is

"If there's no argument, do one thing, but if there IS an argument, do something else."

In Perl :

#!/usr/bin/perl

if ($ARGV[1])
{
`ael $ARGV[1] -lm1`;
}
else
{
`ael`;
}

You can do the same thing in shell script, but I'm too lazy to dig thru my reference manual

edit : typos.

This message has been edited by damien_s_lucifer on July 17, 2001 at 02:40 PM