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adrien.pain
adrien.pain

Reputation: 453

How to define aliases with arguments?

I can't retrieve the way to define a shell alias (in bash) like this one :

alias suppr='/usr/bin/find . -name "*~"  | xargs rm -f'

but with "*~" as a parameter of the alias. I would like to use it like : suppr ".bak" or suppr "*.svn" etc...

(it's just a dummy example here)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 65

Answers (2)

Kent
Kent

Reputation: 195029

why not save your command as a script, and put the script in Path? you can name the script file as anything.

Upvotes: 2

William Pursell
William Pursell

Reputation: 212158

Use a function:

suppr() {
  /usr/bin/find . -name "$@" | xargs rm -f 
}

In general, functions are more flexible and safer to use than aliases. In fact, many people argue that functions should always be used instead of aliases.

Upvotes: 3

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