Basically, you need to do that when you want to work with the arguments. Otherwise, all the arguments go to whatever the last command in the alias is.
Ah, okay - that makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up!
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Basically, you need to do that when you want to work with the arguments. Otherwise, all the arguments go to whatever the last command in the alias is.
Ah, okay - that makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up!