Re: conditional aliases are broken

[Sam Steingold]

> * Eric Blake <roynxr@erqung.pbz> [2011-08-15 16:59:29 -0600]:
>
> 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 "$@"; }

mkdir z
cd z
touch a b 'c d'

how do I write a function that would print the same as
$ \ls | cat
a
b
c d
$


$ f1(){ for a in "$*"; do echo $a; done; }
$ f1 *
a b c d
$

$ f2(){ for a in $*; do echo $a; done; }
$ f2 *
a
b
c
d
$


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