make and change into a directory

[Sacha Chua]

"Giles Orr" <gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:

> Good question! Fun for the whole family ...
> $ alias a2e="echo -$1-; echo _$1_"
> $ a2e blah
> --
> __ blah

I suspect what's happening here is that $1 is substituted with "" and
the alias expansion happens as normal. ALIAS OTHER_PARAMETERS
becomes ALIAS_EXPANSION OTHER_PARAMETERS.

echo -$1-; echo _$1_ blah
echo --; echo __ blah

... looks just about right.

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