[NCLUG] bash alias

[Aaron D. Johnson]

In message <15310.1310.289581.54060 at harrier.ftc.agilent.com>, Daniel Herrington writes
> I use tcsh most of the time.  I have an alias for xemacs so that I can 
> just type "xe <file>" and it starts xemacs and puts it in the
> background.  The alias I use for this is the following:
> 
> alias xe  'xemacs \!* &' 
> 
> How would I do the same thing in bash?

I'd do:

    xe () { xemacs $* & }

Which makes xe a shell function rather than an alias, but it works
just the same.