Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Aliases are not the problem. The problem is aliasing commands *for
>someone else*. If I alias 'ls' to 'rm -rf .', then that is my own
>business, and presumably I have a reason. It is things like Unix and
>Linux distro vendors setting up "default" aliases which gets people
>into trouble.
I'll second this.
I remember in my early Unix days having trouble with the "man"
command. I read its manpage and set up MANPATH to point to a new
collection of man pages, but it was ignored. "which man" confirmed I
was invoking the right program. Eventually I discovered that some
helpful soul had set up
alias man man -M /some/path
and the command line option overrides the environment variable.
That's the reason I now use "type -a" instead of "which".
- Jim Van Zandt
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