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[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 30 November 2008 21:07:51 David C. Rankin wrote:
> alias wp='if [[ $1 ]]; then webpin $1; else echo -e "\n\tusage: wp
> <filename>\n"; fi'


I don't think you can actually pass parameters to aliases. Your previous alias 
worked because wp expanded to "webpin $1" and $1 evaluated to the blank string

You want to use a shell function instead. Something like

function wp() { if [ -n "$1" ]; then webpin $1; else echo -e "\nbad usage\n"; 
fi }

Anders
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