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| From: | Eric Blake |
| Subject: | Re: conditional aliases are broken |
| Date: | Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:59:29 -0600 |
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On 08/15/2011 04:40 PM, Sam Steingold wrote:
* Andreas Schwab<fpujno@yvahk-z68x.bet> [2011-08-15 22:04:04 +0200]: Sam Steingold<sds@gnu.org> writes:Cool. Now, what does this imply?"For almost every purpose, shell functions are preferred over aliases."so, how do I write alias a=b as a function? (remember that arguments may contain spaces&c)
a() { b "$@"; }
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