[plug] alias problem

Russell Steicke r.steicke at bom.gov.au
Tue Jan 14 22:33:28 WST 2003


On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:19:01PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
...
> PS. To save the overhead of starting a new shell process (or perl or...)
> your shell may support 'functions'. Instead of `alias md_bz=...` you
> might be able to use something like:

Doh!  <smack-on-forehead />.  That's a much better idea for something
that short.  And parameters work as expected in functions.



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