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Aliases are like C macros $ alias foo='seq 3 | ' $ foo cat 1 2 3 Functions are functions
by oguz-ismail 2y ago
Aliases are like C macros
$ alias foo='seq 3 | '
$ foo cat
1
2
3
Functions are functions
- RhysU 2y agoSo then use $variables for evil syntactic tricks? That works everywhere. Functions where hygiene counts? Aliases never?
- oguz-ismail 2y ago>use $variables for evil syntactic tricks Can't do that without eval, which is another can of worms. Aliases are fine