bash alias with argument and autocompletion

Question

I have a bunch of scripts in directory that exists on the path, so I can access each wherever I am. Sometime those are very simple util scripts that \"vims\" the file. From tim

Answer 1

For the alias with argument, use function instead of aliases :

a() { cat `which $1` ;}

Or if you do it on more than one line, skip th semicolon :

a() {
    cat `which $1`
}

You can enter it interactively at the shell prompt :

shell:>a() {
>cat `which $1`
>}
shell:>