Re: conditional aliases are broken

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Thursday 18 August 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> 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 ...
> 
Sorry, I've seen Roman's answer just now; feel free to ignore my mail.

Sorry for the noise,
  Stefano