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Passing variables/arguments/parameters to commands

A good place to start is simple variable passing....
Passing variables from one script to another

The next level is passing a variable into a more complex command such as using a variable in a sed command. There are some simple quoting techniques that are very general. These are mentioned in...
How can I use a variable in sed?

Also awk has a couple of specific ways to handle this...
Passing values out awk.
PASS parameter to AWK
Passing argument to awk script

Doing this with aliases depends on your shell.....
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