unix - parameter subsitution in bash aliases

Question

in tcsh we can create a alias for example

alias kate 'kate !* &'

after this i can run a command on the shell like

kate test.py 

which will be translated to

kate test.py &

what is the equivalent of this in bash?

Answer 1

Bash does have an alias feature but the Posix syntax (shared by bash, dash, ash, ksh, etc...) is all that is needed for this case so one may as well just do:

kate () {
  /usr/local/bin/kate "$@" &
}