We just recently moved from a DG-UX (Unix V) to HP 9000 servers running POSIX. I used the c-shell in the DG-UX system mainly because the bourne-shell did not support aliasing. Now in the default posix-shell of HP aliasing is supported. The main difference seams to be that in a c-shell you can pass the cmd-line arguments to an alias by using '\!*' - this is not the case in the posix-shell (sh-shell). I know I can "pass" arguments to an alias in posix - it gets appended to the aliased cmd, but if your alias (main reason in my opinion) is a complex set of piped cmds then the arguments get again only appended to the last cmd. Is there a way to pass arguments In the sh-shell (posix) similar to "\!*" in the c-shell?

THX in advance for any help!

The easiest way to do it is to convert your aliases to functions. Then you can do stuff like (this is for ksh, but sh-posix should be similar)

and call it with "somealias arg_1 arg_2"

Cheers
ZB