On 1/9/16 2:21 PM, Eric Cook wrote:
> In mksh, ksh93, zsh and maybe others, you can use quotes to suppress alias
> expansions during definition just like you would a simple command;
> unfortunately bash deems it a invalid identifier.
This is how Posix specifies it, and how the `base implementati
In mksh, ksh93, zsh and maybe others, you can use quotes to suppress alias
expansions during definition just like you would a simple command;
unfortunately bash deems it a invalid identifier.
Hi,
Am 07.01.2016 um 00:49 schrieb Linda Walsh:
> I had an alias referring to printf that I wanted to replace
> with a function.
>
> instead of using the function declarator
> 'function' (or my alias 'sub'), I remembered that the official
> way was to use:
>
> P () {
> ...
> }
>
> But then r
On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 03:49:35PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I had an alias referring to printf that I wanted to replace
> with a function.
>
> But then ran into problems with the alias taking precedence over the
> function.
Yup. That's one of the many evils of aliases. They need to be remove
I had an alias referring to printf that I wanted to replace
with a function.
instead of using the function declarator
'function' (or my alias 'sub'), I remembered that the official
way was to use:
P () {
...
}
But then ran into problems with the alias taking precedence over the
function.
