Subject: Re: Start up script
From: Andrew DeFaria <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 12:55:47 -0800
Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin

Robert Mark Bram wrote:

> Howdy all!
> 
> Read the documentation.. made my .bashrc script!
> 
> Here it is so far:
> 
> function ll
> {
>    ls -l
> }
> 
> function m
> {
>    man $1 | less
> }

Why do you insist on piping the output of man to less? It's unnecessary 
as man will use whatever is in PAGER.

> Any one have any other nice tricks they use in theirs?

There are thousands of them!

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