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> Also not least because aliases are not even ENABLED by default in scripts,
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Depends on whether or not you are using a POSIX compatible shell.
> In your case, you are trying to dress up bash to look like perl.
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I use 1 prefix from perl, 'my'
perl doesn't have
int, array or map.
Just because I've provided examples in the past that were intended to look
like perl, doesn't mean that's a norm.
