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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Comments: In reply to Matthias Teege <matthias@mteege.de>
        "Aliases with spaces?" (Mar  1, 10:45am)
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On Mar 1, 10:45am, Matthias Teege wrote:
> 
> is it possible to define a alias like "foo -r"=programm?

It's possible to define it, but it won't do anything useful.

To accomplish what you probably mean, you'd need something like:

    foo() {
      case $1 in (-r) shift; programm $*;; (*) command foo $*;; esac
    }