pass command line arguement to alias

Scott A. Hill s.a.hill@larc.nasa.gov
Thu May 17 11:21:00 GMT 2001


Try the following:
    "TextPad.exe" $1 &

Scott

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From: <JROZYCKI@ebmail.gdeb.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 1:47 PM
Subject: pass command line arguement to alias


> I have an alias that starts an NT executable.  I'd like to pass an
argument
> to this executable in a bash?
>
> I was trying:
> alias ne="textpad $1 &"
>
> but it thinks the argument is another command and tries to execute it.
>
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