<div dir="ltr"><div>same problem... not on my terminal<br><br>bash-4.3$ x 1<br>PAR=1<br><br></div>but I must say you explained "the why" very well regards the initial empty parameter<br><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Michael Welle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mwe012008@gmx.net" target="_blank">mwe012008@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
Philip Brown <<a href="mailto:philipbrown.es@gmail.com">philipbrown.es@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
<br>
> i think that is a feature of echo<br>
> if you want without the space you could use printf<br>
><br>
> alias x='printf "PAR=%s\n" $1'<br>
same problem as with the initial question. What value does the $1 have?<br>
It is empty. alias does not expect any parameters, if that might be the<br>
idea behind $1.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
hmw<br>
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