Re: conditional aliases are broken

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hi Eric.

On Thursday 18 August 2011, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/18/2011 08:44 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> >> how do I write a function that would print the same as
> >> $ \ls | cat
> 
> Useless use of cat.  This can be done with \ls -1.
> 
> > f(){ for a in "$@"; do echo "$a"; done; }
> 
> Or skip the loop altogether:
> 
> f(){ printf %s\\n "%@"; }
> 
I think you've made a typo here; it should have been: 

 f () { printf %s\\n "$@"; }

I guess that's what you meant, right?

BTW, is this behaviour truly portable to other shells and/or printf
utilities?  POSIX seems to require it to portable, but you never
know ...

Regards,
  Stefano