Hello everyone,

I have got a couple friends to try out OTW's Bandit to get some hands-on with Linux. I wanted to come up with a system for connecting to each level. Initially, I was just creating a variable $LVL and redefining it to a new number every time I exit the ssh connection and move on to the next part.

However, after recently starting to create my own command aliases, I wanted to try that. The idea is so that I can just say banditssh levelnumber

I need to still learn more bash scripting fundamentals. I have one alias I copied from a video:

alias pf="ps -e | grep $1"

(Where $1 is the first argument given) - when I saw this, I was so excited. I wanted to try and use that method of writing arguments in my next commands.

I tried this (naively):

alias banditssh="ssh [email protected] -p 2220"

So yeah, I realized it gets read as a (blank) variable instead of an argument when I try banditssh 2

What would my solution be here? I feel like I'm being stupid and missing something simple. Is the only way to keep redefining the variable and then calling ssh from history again? It's not too troublesome, but I just want to learn.