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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!kasajian
  2. From: kasajian@netcom.com (Kenneth Kasajian)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
  4. Subject: shell
  5. Keywords: shell
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec30.150828.24430@netcom.com>
  7. Date: 30 Dec 92 15:08:28 GMT
  8. Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)
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  11. I'd like to have a shell program (using c-shell) called "dir" that works
  12. like ls -l -F so I created a file called dir with the exec attribute with
  13. the following contents:
  14. ls -l -F $1
  15. but the $1 doesn't expand wildcards properly.  What am I doing wrong?
  16. Kenny
  17.