Ever want to pass in a command line argument to an alias? You would think you could just do it with $1, but actually you have to create a function and then call that function. So, for instance if you want to pass a portion of a log file name, you could set your alias like this…<\/p>\n

alias catlog='function _catIt() { cat \/var\/logs\/$1.log; };_catIt'<\/code><\/pre>\n
then, when you want to see the XX00D log, you just call your alias like so…<\/p>\n
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