> > > Also not least because aliases are not even ENABLED by default in scripts, > ---- 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. --- 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.