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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 13:22:05 -0700
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Subject: Re: from tcsh to zsh (alias)
From: Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Leander Jedamus <ljedamus@web.de>
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On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Leander Jedamus <ljedamus@web.de> wrote:

> alias ssh="ssh $* ; cd ."
>

$* has no special meaning in an alias.  You should instead use a function,
like this:

function ssh
{
    command ssh $@
    cd .
}

..wayne..

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