[KLUG Members] ariable substitution in bash alias

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Most likely this is not possible, just wanted to confirm if I havent
> missed it.
> In the alias definition,
> alias killxyz='ps axf | grep xyz | cut -c 1-5 | xargs kill -9'

Yikes, that could be like spraying the process list with buckshot.  Why
not just "pkill -9 xyz"

> is it possible to use a variable $xyz in place of xyz?

Works for me.

aleph:~ # alias fred='echo $xyz'
aleph:~ # export xyz=wini
aleph:~ # fred
wini
aleph:~ #

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