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Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 20:21:11 -0700
To: "Barnhart, Kevin" <Kevin DOT Barnhart AT echostar DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: RE: run batch w/o .bat?
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Kevin,

BASH's aliases do not have all the functionality of CSH/TCSH aliases. In 
particular, they cannot access the history mechanism. If you want to do 
more than simple left-substitution of the command name, you should use a 
shell procedure instead.

This should be equivalent to what you're trying:

bat() {
         batName="$1.bat"
         shift
         "$batName" "$@"
}


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA



At 14:46 2002-06-04, Barnhart, Kevin wrote:
>Actually, I would settle for something like the following:
>
>alias 'bat'='!:0-0.bat !:1*'
>
>I'd like to add this into .bashrc.  Problem is that when I type in 'bat' at
>the command line I get the following error:
>bash: !:0-0.bat: command not found
>
>I'm tried to escape the bang with a '\', but to no avail.  If I type:
>!:0-0.bat !:1*
>at the command line then there is no problem--it does what is supposed to,
>which is to append '.bat' to the 0-word of the previous command.
>
>Help?
>
>Kevin


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