Bash versus tcsh argument argument

Question

I used this alias in tcsh to find files in the filesystem.

alias findf 'find . -name \!* -print'

How do I write this in a bash shell?

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gaitat 13 Aug 14 at 13:48

1 answer

Etan reisner · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-13T13:52:57+0000

That is a wrapper function, not an alias (assumed to be \!*

a placeholder for alias "arguments").

To take just one argument:

findf() {
    find . -name "$1" -print
}

To accept any number of arguments (not that it's very useful for an argument -name

):

findf() {
    find . -name "$@" -print
}