Unix Shell - quoting inside alias

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quoting inside alias

Rufus T. Firefly

2006-01-29, 9:31 pm

Can't get this work right:

$ type -a function_name |sed -e 's/.*is\ a\ function$/#\ &/' >repository

should be defined as an alias with function_name and repository as
variables, ie. somthing like

type -a $* |sed -e 's/.*is\ a\ function$/#\ &/' >file$(date +_%F)

How must it be quoted for variables to be recognized inside an alias

alias fs='...'

Ed Morton

2006-01-29, 9:31 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
> Can't get this work right:
>
> $ type -a function_name |sed -e 's/.*is\ a\ function$/#\ &/' >repository
>
> should be defined as an alias with function_name and repository as
> variables, ie. somthing like
>
> type -a $* |sed -e 's/.*is\ a\ function$/#\ &/' >file$(date +_%F)
>
> How must it be quoted for variables to be recognized inside an alias
>
> alias fs='...'

I think what you're really asking is how to pass arguments to an alias
and you can't. Use a function instead.

Ed.