Re: Redirection between assignment statement and command name prevents alias substitution

[Oğuz]

24 Mart 2021 Çarşamba tarihinde Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au> yazdı:

>     Date:        Wed, 24 Mar 2021 11:15:11 +0300
>     From:        =?UTF-8?B?T8SfdXo=?= <oguzismailuysal@gmail.com>
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>   | I think I got the general idea of aliases now
>
> I'm not sure why you want or need that, aliases
> are dumb (bizarre) and shoukd be deleted...
>
> I keep trying to get tge POSIX people to
> remove them from the standard.  They keep ignoring me.  Shells won't drop
> support, but at least
> no-one woukd be able to rely on them working,
> or working any particular way any more.


They are fine as an interactive feature but definitely don't belong in
shell scripts.

If a feature is supported by all shells, why leave it outside the standard?
Besides the ordinary user doesn't expect anything beyond simple aliases
like `la='ls -A' ll='ls -lh'' to work.


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> kre
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Oğuz