how to do aliasing in sh shell

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, googler wrote:

> how to do aliasing in sh shell

The Bourne shell doesn't support aliasing, so you can't do it.

What you CAN do is use a Boune-like shell, which suppports
aliases, including ksh and bash.

HTH,

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"googler" <arun_ccjl@yahoo.co.in> writes:

> how to do aliasing in sh shell

Write a function instead of an alias.

Joe
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joe@invalid.address wrote:
> Write a function instead of an alias.

Thats another thing the Bourne shell is missing.

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Torgny Lyon wrote:
> joe@invalid.address wrote:
> 
>>Write a function instead of an alias.
> 
> 
> Thats another thing the Bourne shell is missing.
> 

The classic Bourne shell didn't have them, but the SysV Bourne shell did.

Torgny Lyon <torgny@enterprise.hb.se> writes:

> joe@invalid.address wrote:
> > Write a function instead of an alias.
> 
> Thats another thing the Bourne shell is missing.

Really? What Bourne shell do you use that doesn't have functions?

Joe
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joe@invalid.address wrote:
> Really? What Bourne shell do you use that doesn't have functions?

Sorry, my mistake. Its the function keyword that is missing, not the 
ability to define functions. I stand corrected. 

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