On 4/18/17 2:13 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
> Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 4/18/17 9:35 AM, Eduardo Bustamante wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> Or now that I think about it, you can get away with these functions:
>>>
>>> # masked builtins
>>> dualbus@debian:~/foo/bar/baz$ pushd() { builtin pushd "$@" >/dev/null;
>>> dirs -v; }; popd(){ builtin popd "$@" >/dev/null; dirs -v; }
>>>     
>>
>> This would be the preferable alternative, since it's so trivial.  The one
>> change I would suggest would be to make the `;' a `&&':
>>
>> pushd()
>> {
>>     builtin pushd "$@" >/dev/null && dirs -v
>> }
>>
>>   
> Maybe add 'builtin' before "dirs" since we're redefining builtins
> (i.e. get into habit?)

Sure, if there's a chance there's a function named `dirs' and you *don't*
want to use it, this is good practice.

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