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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
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Subject: Re: skel ~/.bashrc (was RE: HOME)
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 22:02:20 +0100
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Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Hannu, Max,
>
> Aliases permit no manipulation of arguments or anything but simple
> left-hand expansion of the alias name with a fixed replacement string.
>
> Shell procedures are as flexible as scripts and don't require file access.
>
> Don't forget to use "return" in place of "exit" in shell procedures!

But that doesn't really make the *preferable*, if all you want to do is
simple expansion of the alias name.

I'm having to write alias-type things as functions, just so I can export
them and use them in scripts.


Max.

> At 13:20 2003-05-05, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:
>>
>>> $ info Bash # says that shell functions are preferable to aliases...
>>>   anyone who can explain?
>>
>> Well, I prefer shell functions because I can export them to subshells,
>> whereas aliases don't permit that.



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