On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 12:04:44AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> Functions allow you to use parameters, simple branching ("return"),
> recursion, local variables. Functions allow you recursion, as well.
> The only real reason that this means you should use them instead of
> aliases is that there's
* alex ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030606 19:01]:
> I've been using a collection of aliases for a few years and I've
> been told many times that I should be using 'functions ' to do the
> same job that my aliases do quite well. I'm told that aliases are
> not suited for running compound commands but s
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On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:30:58PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
> (Conventional wisdom, at least in my world, seems to be that you want
> to do as little customization in the root account as possible. If I
> were setting up a system like this, I'd proba
alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For example, I use an alias ' win+ ' to get into my Windows 98SE
> From Debian
> alias win+='mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/da1; cd /mnt/da1;
> ls'
>
> alias win-='cd; umount /mnt/da1' (to unmount)
> (I created da1/ in /mnt/
>
>
> I have mult
I've been using a collection of aliases for a few years and I've
been told many times that I should be using 'functions ' to do the
same job that my aliases do quite well. I'm told that aliases are
not suited for running compound commands but should be limited to
simple equivalents such as
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