* David Z Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030125 20:14]: > So while bash and zsh have aliases, you can't actually do much with > them.
come again? What would you like to do with them that you can't?
Certainly not the example given below...
> 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.
So does
alias ls='ls --color=auto --classify'
The shell function seems like overkill. I'd doubt that there's any
performance difference, but the alias is easier syntactically and
conceptually, for the newbie.
good times,
Vineet
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