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From: Kevin Schnitzius <kevin DOT schnitzius AT citrix DOT com>
To: "'JROZYCKI AT ebmail DOT gdeb DOT com'" <JROZYCKI AT ebmail DOT gdeb DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: pass command line arguement to alias
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 14:52:52 -0400
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function ne
{
    textpad $* 
}

Kevin

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	JROZYCKI AT ebmail DOT gdeb DOT com [mailto:JROZYCKI AT ebmail DOT gdeb DOT com] 
Sent:	Thursday, May 17, 2001 13:47
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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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