I am trying to have an alias to move binaries into a folder on my path. Currently I have:
alias addapp='sudo mv $1 /usr/local/bin'
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2A bash alias does not accept a parameter. You will need to rewrite this as a function. It would also help in future posts to include any error messages you get in invoking your commands. – doneal24 May 25 '22 at 19:23
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The most important fact about aliases in `sh` and such: an alias replaces text with *text*. If you imagine `addapp` turns into `sudo mv $1 /usr/local/bin` in whatever command line you wanted to use it then you will see why it didn't work as you expected. – Kamil Maciorowski May 25 '22 at 19:45