> The alias itself looks a bit weird in that to pass arguments to an aliased command you need to use a function (in Bash at least AFACIT) but it all works fine.

> The alias itself looks a bit weird in that to pass arguments to an aliased command you need to use a function (in Bash at least AFACIT) but it all works fine. No you don't: $ alias say=echo $ say beep beep You do need to do something special the other way around (if you wrap a command in a function it needs to explicitly pass the arguments on).