alias in bash shell

[xuo]

Hi,

Under tcsh, I have an alias :
alias dir 'ls -al --color \!* | more'

I try to do the same under bash in a .profile file :
alias dir='ls -al --color $1 | more'

but the behavior is not the same (and I want the tcsh behavior !!) :

Ex :
under tcsh :
# dir
total 68
drwxr-xr-x 11 apache apache 4096 2009-10-24 21:10 ./
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 2009-09-04 21:50 ../
-rw------- 1 apache apache 4885 2009-10-19 19:11 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 2009-09-04 21:38 cgi-bin/

# dir cgi-bin
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 2009-09-04 21:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 apache apache 4096 2009-10-24 21:10 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 apache apache 1075 2009-04-15 16:28 test.cgi

Under bash :

# dir
total 68
drwxr-xr-x 11 apache apache 4096 2009-10-24 21:10 ./
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 2009-09-04 21:50 ../
-rw------- 1 apache apache 4885 2009-10-19 19:11 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 2009-09-04 21:38 cgi-bin/

(Same as under tcsh : OK).

# dir cgi-bin
total 68
drwxr-xr-x 11 apache apache 4096 2009-10-24 21:10 ./
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 2009-09-04 21:50 ../
-rw------- 1 apache apache 4885 2009-10-19 19:11 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 2009-09-04 21:38 cgi-bin/

*** cgi-bin/: répertoire ***

I don't want the contents of . to be displayed.
I want the contents of cgi-bin to be displayed and they are not.

What am I doing wrong ?

Regards.

Xuo.

[tpl]

try exposing the shell variable like this

alias dir='ls -al --color '$1' | more'

[xuo]

Hi,

Your proposal does not work neither.
To make it work, I replaced the alias by a function :
dir() {
ls -al --color $1 | more
}

I search with Google and some people say it is not possible to pass arguments to an alias. I don't know if this is true.
This workaround works fine and I'll use functions to replace all the other aliases I have.

Thank you for your help.

Regards.

Xuo.