csh args

[Paul John Falstad]

In article <4861 at crystal1.UUCP> mostek at motcid.UUCP (Frank B. Mostek) writes:
>How does one pass several args (more than 2), other than the !^, !*, !$
>mechanisms, to aliases in csh?  I have read the man page, read the UNIX
>C Shell Field Guide, and "played around" for about an hour.

I'm not exactly sure what you want to do.   Do you know about the !:n syntax?

% alias first echo \!:1
% alias second echo \!:2
% alias swap echo \!:2 \!:1
% second a b c
b

If you have something specific you want, it's probably possible.

The only way to pass arguments is through this pseudo-history-mechanism
thing (unless you want all the arguments intact, of course).  Very
kludgy.  It's too bad csh doesn't have shell functions.

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