>> Looking at the manual page, it says >> >> ALIASES >> Aliases allow a string to be substituted for a word when it is used >> as >> the first word of a simple command.
Martin suggested (but IIUC didn't sent to this list): > "Beginning of a simple command" should probably be replaced by something > more along the lines of "beginning of any command that does not start with > a keyword (such as "while", "if", "case", etc) or assignment. Though I think by "keyword" he means "reserved word". Dale
