Problem with bash: alias command

[Philip Brown]

i think that is a feature of echo
if you want without the space you could use printf

alias x='printf "PAR=%s\n" $1'


On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Joachim Backes <
joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Running F23, and my shell is /bin/bash.
>
> My problem: suppose you define an alias:
>
> alias x='echo PAR=$1'
>
> Now call the alias by:
>
> x 1
>
> Output: PAR= 1
>
> My question: why do I get the blank before the "1"?
>
> All comments are welcome.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Joachim Backes
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