[LUNA] simple(ton?) bash question ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

.... I am trying to setup some aliases under bash. Since bash apparently 
can't use positional parameters in aliases, I am then trying a function:


[root at Q6600:/etc, Tue Nov 18, 10:54 AM] 1075 # function lltr10 (lltr $* 
| tail -10); export lltr10
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `ls'
[root at Q6600:/etc, Tue Nov 18, 10:54 AM] 1076 # function lltr10 (lltr 
"$*" | tail -10); export lltr10
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `ls'
[root at Q6600:/etc, Tue Nov 18, 10:55 AM] 1077 # function lltr10 (lltr 
"$@" | tail -10); export lltr10
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `ls'
[root at Q6600:/etc, Tue Nov 18, 10:55 AM] 1078 # function lltr10 (lltr $@ 
| tail -10); export lltr10
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `ls'
[root at Q6600:/etc, Tue Nov 18, 10:55 AM] 1079 # which lltr
alias lltr='llt -r'
[root at Q6600:/etc, Tue Nov 18, 11:00 AM] 1080 # which llt
alias llt='ll -t'
[root at Q6600:/etc, Tue Nov 18, 11:00 AM] 1081 # which ll
alias ll='la -lis'
[root at Q6600:/etc, Tue Nov 18, 11:00 AM] 1082 # which la
alias la='lf -a'
[root at Q6600:/etc, Tue Nov 18, 11:00 AM] 1083 # which lf
alias lf='ls -F'
         /bin/ls
[root at Q6600:/etc, Tue Nov 18, 11:00 AM] 1084 #

What am I doing wrong here :-/ ? TIA for any & all clues ....


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