Make a Bash alias that takes a parameter?

Question

I used to use CShell (csh), which lets you make an alias that takes a parameter. The notation was something like

alias junk=\"mv \\\\!* ~/.Trash\"
         


        

Answer 1

As has already been pointed out by others, using a function should be considered best practice.

However, here is another approach, leveraging xargs:

alias junk="xargs -I "{}" -- mv "{}" "~/.Trash" <<< "

Note that this has side effects regarding redirection of streams.