Very Computer

   After 5 hrs of experiments and man pages etc I hope someone can tell me
how to solve this seemingly simple problem:

   If I have the following line in my ".bashrc" file:

         alias hcum="hcopy /home/brands/$1 'C:Doc:unix_to_mac:$2'"

   and I then enter at the bash prompt:

         hcum firstfilename secondfilename

   is this not equivalent to entering at the bash prompt:

         hcopy /home/brands/firstfilename 'C:Doc:unix_to_mac:secondfilename'

This last line when entered at the bash prompt does what I want to do.
The alias does not work, even though analagous aliases with other
functions like "cp" work.  My MkLinux tells me:

         hcopy: hcopy "firstfilename" not a directory

Well it isn't a directory and bash is perfectly happy to not insist it's a
directory wgeb U type the full command at the bash prompt.  FYI, in
MkLinux "hcopy" copies files from the Linux filesystem to Mac filesystem.

Many thanks,

Ralph Brands
University of British Columbia

Quote:>   If I have the following line in my ".bashrc" file:

>         alias hcum="hcopy /home/brands/$1 'C:Doc:unix_to_mac:$2'"

Did you ever consider doing "man bash"?  (RTFM)

BTW I think you've got the quoting on the second argument wrong
anyhow, $2 will not be substitued inside single quotes.

hcum() { hcopy /home/brands/$1 "C:Doc:unix_to_mac:$2" ; }

[ Bash 1.x users: note the semicolon, you'll need it when you upgrade
to Bash 2.0 ]

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