Why is this not working?

From: Lekeas GK (cj571_at_soi.city.ac.uk)
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 15:33:23 +0100

Hi All,

I am trying to create a script which would look like the which command
under tcsh. I wrote the following script:

#! /usr/bin/bash
if ! `alias $1`; then
        echo "$1 is aliased to " `alias $1|cut -d\' -f2`
fi

However, when I execute it I get touch is aliased to ( which is not
true, as I have created an alias for touch).

Assuming I can get that to work, my next step would be to run which under
tcsh and return the result to standard input. How would that be possible?

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thanks in advance.

George

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