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Re: What is the difference between a newline and a semi-colon?
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: What is the difference between a newline and a semi-colon? |
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Fri, 30 May 2014 11:42:25 -0400 |
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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:13:01AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> (I've seen ONE case where an alias can do things that a function cannot:
> writing an alias for 'find' that temporarily inhibits globbing on the
> arguments for JUST the find command - that has to be done via an alias,
> because it depends on affecting the parse, and a function call is too
> late. But in every other case, I have been able to rewrite an alias
> into a function with no difficulties)
Ah yes, Simon Tatham's "magic aliases".[1] Probably the most astonishing
shell hack ever invented.
[1] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/aliases.html