Bourne shell modifications, past and future

Dave Mensing.wbst at xerox.arpa
Thu Nov 21 04:30:18 AEST 1985


>> Out of curiosity, just why don't you want to put in command aliasing?

>It's there, called shell functions!  e.g.:

>	l () { ls -FCs $* ; }

What shell and which machine allows this? I'm running SV.2 on an AT&T
UNIX PC with the Bourne shell, and it won't work for me. It would be
great to be able to do this as I really miss command aliasing from my
csh days!

-- Dave Mensing --


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