Help with Alias

Question

I frequently use:

find /home -iname foo* 2> /dev/null

The 2> /dev/null suppresses any permissions issues and leaves legit matches.

I tried creating:

alias lost=find /home -iname ${1} 2> /dev/null

Answer 1

Since your command has one argument, it can't be an alias. You should define it as a function instead.

function lost {
    find /home -iname ${1} 2> /dev/null
}