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googler

2004-08-24, 4:41 pm

how to do aliasing in sh shell

Rich Teer

2004-08-24, 4:42 pm

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, googler wrote:

> how to do aliasing in sh shell


The Bourne shell doesn't support aliasing, so you can't do it.

What you CAN do is use a Boune-like shell, which suppports
aliases, including ksh and bash.

HTH,

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joe@invalid.address

2004-08-24, 4:42 pm

"googler" <arun_ccjl@yahoo.co.in> writes:

> how to do aliasing in sh shell


Write a function instead of an alias.

Joe
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Torgny Lyon

2004-08-24, 4:42 pm

joe@invalid.address wrote:
> Write a function instead of an alias.


Thats another thing the Bourne shell is missing.

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red floyd

2004-08-24, 4:42 pm

Torgny Lyon wrote:
> joe@invalid.address wrote:
>
>
>
> Thats another thing the Bourne shell is missing.
>


The classic Bourne shell didn't have them, but the SysV Bourne shell did.
joe@invalid.address

2004-08-24, 4:42 pm

Torgny Lyon <torgny@enterprise.hb.se> writes:

> joe@invalid.address wrote:
>
> Thats another thing the Bourne shell is missing.


Really? What Bourne shell do you use that doesn't have functions?

Joe
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Torgny Lyon

2004-08-24, 11:05 pm

joe@invalid.address wrote:
> Really? What Bourne shell do you use that doesn't have functions?


Sorry, my mistake. Its the function keyword that is missing, not the
ability to define functions. I stand corrected.

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