Re: export PWD

[Wilhelm Mueller]

    Jörg>   alias mycd='cd $(yyy $@)'

Aliases are just short cuts for simple commands and not very useful
besides for simple things like alias ll='ls -l'.  They simply don't
take arguments.


Shell functions are usually what you want--and much more powerful
than csh style aliases with arguments, though maybe not in your case.



    Jörg>   alias mycd='cd `yyy '
    Jörg> now it works with
    Jörg>   mycd gcc`

Now, that's really ugly!  Is there an obfuscated shell code contest
going on somewhere?


mycd () { cd "$(yyy "$@")"; }

is probably what you're looking for.