On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Hmmm, this topic of aliases masking the real behavior of commands by
> the same name seem vaguely familiar to me. Anyone know where that
> might have been recently mentioned? Slashdot, freshmeat, LJ? Nahhh,
> that doesn't sound right. Hmmm, maybe it was in my SysAdmin magazine....
>
> Hmmm, Oh well. If anyone remembers where I saw that discussed, lemme
> know, huh?
Yeah, yeah, yeah -- but, in this case, it was really more a "something I
would have done anyway, acting in a manner that confused me" rather than
"something I didn't know how to do, or was surprised at non-standard
functionality due to aliasing."
A subtle difference, granted, but nevertheless a valid one. Ever since I
saw a colorized ls under Slackware, lo, these many moons ago, I thought it
was awesome. And I'd always been annoyed by the "mark *.sh files as
executable even if the executable flag isn't set" behavior... just not
enough to actually *do* anything about it. Mea culpa. One could even go
so far as to say that I was bitten by known, but forgotten, behavior. It
certainly isn't the alias's fault, though.
-Ken
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