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Jose Unpingco writes:

> I'm just getting into zsh and I have an alias from cshrc:
> 
>   alias ff   'find . -name "\!*" -print'
> 
> that I can't get converted to zsh.

Define it as a function instead of an alias

function ff { find . -name "$@" -print }

...and everything should work fine...

Dave