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From: | Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSW DOT Invalid> |
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Subject: | Re: latest ls.exe version in XP problem |
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Date: | Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:24:57 GMT |
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On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 23:21:43 GMT in comp.os.msdos.djgpp, roy robertson <pamola AT att DOT net> wrote: >"one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com" wrote: > >> I created an alias for "ls" alias to "ls -F" > >Don't you get some kind of recursion nightmare if you do that? >Try it with lss aliassed to ls -F, or maybe there's an environmental variable you can set? From 'man bash': "The first word of the replacement text is tested for aliases, but a word that is identical to an alias being expanded is not expanded a second time. This means that one may alias ls to ls -F, for instance, and bash does not try to recursively expand the replacement text. If the last character of the alias value is a blank, then the next command word following the alias is also checked for alias expansion." The last feature is useful for aliases of commands which typically take other commands as arguments, like time and xargs, allowing aliases of other commands to be used. -- Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada Brian DOT Inglis AT CSi DOT com (Brian[dot]Inglis{at}SystematicSW[dot]ab[dot]ca) fake address use address above to reply
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