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Re: difficult alias

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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: difficult alias
Date: Sun, 3 May 2026 07:45:52 -0700
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On 2026-05-03 07:36, Eric Cook wrote:

On 5/3/26 10:23 AM, Ray Andrews wrote:
... can that alias be repaired?
It could, but why not just make it a function?

tst() { echo -E $var | fold -sw 80 | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/\n /g' }
It looks just like how you would type it interactively and allows youto copy and paste code from the definition without needed to undo
the escaping needed for it to be an alias.

Good idea! I know there's a sort of very general distrust of aliasesanyway. Function is transparent. KISS.

Tx.

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