[X-Unix] Bash alias help

[Brian Medley]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:28:56PM +0100, Kirk McElhearn wrote:

> I have the following alias for tcsh:
> 
> alias dict ?curl -s dict://dict.org/d:\! <#_msocom_1>  :1 | egrep -v
>  '^22.*|^250.*|^150.*'"
> 
> I want to rewrite this for bash, but, as far as I understand, \! doesn't
> work in bash aliases. Does anyone out there who is a bash expert know if
> this is correct? If so, how can I get this to work in bash?

Are you trying to use arguments?  If so, this might be helpful from the
bash man page:

    There  is no mechanism for using arguments in the replacement text.
    If arguments are needed, a shell function should be  used  (see
    FUNCTIONS below).

-- 
~'`^`'~=-.,__,.-=~'`^`'~=-.,__,.-=~'`^`'~=-., \|/  (___)  \|/ _,.-=~'`^`
                                               @~./'O o`\.~@
               "Knowledge is Power"           /__( \___/ )__\  *PPPFFBT!*
                  -- Francis Bacon               `\__`U_/'
 _,.-=~'`^`'~=-.,__,.-=~'`^`'~=-.,__,.-=~'`^`'~= <____|'  ^^`'~=-.,__,.-=
~`'^`'~=-.,__,.-=~'`^`'~=-.,__,.-=~'`^`'~=-.,__,.-==--^'~=-.,__,.-=~'`^`