如何处理别名中的多个输入？

Question

I am using tcsh shell.

Currently I have the following alias which I intend to expand.

alias e 'emacs \!:* &'

I want to create an alias which opens files from a previous directory

alias ep 'emacs ../\!:* &'

this is also fine, but I want to handle the case where if multiple filesnames are supplied to ep it would still be able to open them.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

You can create a function in your .bashrc instead for bash, and whatever the config file for tcsh is as well:

funcname(){
    firstfunc -options etc etc
    secondfunc -options etc etc
}

One thing to consider though, each function will only execute after the previous function has finished, ie secondfunc will do nothing until firstfunc is finished.