Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:54:29AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
>> 'chsh /bin/zsh', then ls() { /bin/ls --color=auto --classify "$@"; }
> please explain...
The syntax for aliases is substantially different in Bourne-like
shells than in C-like shells. I tend to find csh syntax more arcane
than necessary, and using a similar shell to the one shell scripts are
written for is helpful, particularly for doing Deep Shell Magic.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ explains in great
detail why you shouldn't use csh and derivatives for scripting.
So while bash and zsh have aliases, you can't actually do much with
them. Bourne-like shells offer a feature called shell functions,
which use similar syntax to full-blown shell scripts. So
ls() { /bin/ls --color=auto --classify "$@"; }
might be put in a .bashrc or a .zshrc to define a shell alias for ls
that does what the original poster asked for.
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