Problem with bash: alias command

[Michael Welle]

Hello,

Philip Brown <philipbrown.es at gmail.com> writes:

> 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'
same problem as with the initial question. What value does the $1 have?
It is empty. alias does not expect any parameters, if that might be the
idea behind $1.

Regards
hmw

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