Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <01b501c0defe$34ce7920$4d319b80@larc.nasa.gov> Reply-To: "Scott A. Hill" From: "Scott A. Hill" To: References: <85256A4F.00614E05.00@ebmail.gdeb.com> Subject: Re: pass command line arguement to alias Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 14:20:57 -0400 Organization: STAB MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Try the following: "TextPad.exe" $1 & Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 1:47 PM 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. > > > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple