On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 01:41:23 +0200, I wrote:
Wasn't it Almquist who said (something like) "Aliases are for users who
don't know how to write shell functions."
Here's the correct quote from the ash(1) man page:
"Aliases provide a convenient way for naive users to create shorthands for
commands without having to learn how to create functions with arguments."
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