Fun with ignoreeof
Richard A. O'Keefe
ok at quintus.UUCP
Thu Jan 28 21:32:20 AEST 1988
In article <3854 at vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com>, barnett at vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
> In article <584 at cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok at quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> |The command
> | /bin/kill -HUP $$
> |is immune to aliases,
>
> Not really. Try
> alias /bin/kill echo
>
He's absolutely right, folks. (If I had a Bourne shell with history,
I would change over RIGHT NOW!) The fine print in the manual says
that the things you alias are "words", and /bin/kill is a "word".
What an amazing feature. I wish I could make it go away...
Ok, since you can't alias alias 'unalias',
unalias kill
kill -HUP $$
or
''kill -HUP $$
or \kill -HUP $$
or even
\/bin/sh -c "/bin/kill -HUP $$"
{sh functions can't look like absolute pathnames}
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