On Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 8:58 PM Dale R. Worley <wor...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >> 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". > i mix my maybe again-fail-in-place ( topic ) std root@localhost:~# alias if='if ' mid='[[ 1 ]] ' mid2='; then ' c1='printf ye\\n ' end='; fi ' root@localhost:~# if mid mid2 c1 end ye root@localhost:~# Dale > >
