Re: Aliases with multiple names

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

zzapper wrote:
> Hi Ya
> I want to give aliases long & short names (w/o duplicating the entire
> alias)
> 
> alias fred='echo "goat"'
> 
> alias f=fred
> 
> Both f & fred now echo goat but is this actually "legal" and will it
> always work?

Yes, aliases are evaluated recursively except that each individual alias
won't be expanded inside replacement text for itself.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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