On Sat 04 Mar 2023 at 12:23:58 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 11:14:39AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > This use is discouraged > > > > There's a place for warning about the use of aliases in, say, > > Greg's BashPitfalls, or books, but not here. > > Discouraging the use of legacy features that are considered dangerous > in modern usage is fair game for software manuals, I would say.
But it doesn't point out the dangers, dangers that you can easily duplicate with functions. What I objected to is the tone, a tone that was picked up in the first line of the first reply. There are many lists of dangerous aliases on the web, but I haven't found a list of such aliases that can't be transcribed into functions. (I'm not sure where modern usage comes in.) Cheers, David.
