Re: difficult alias
Ray Andrews <[email protected]>
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On 2026-05-03 07:36, Eric Cook wrote:
> On 5/3/26 10:23 AM, Ray Andrews wrote:
>> ... can that alias be repaired?
> It could, but why not just make it a function?
>
> tst() { echo -E $var | fold -sw 80 | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/\n /g' }
>
> It looks just like how you would type it interactively and allows you
> to copy and paste code from the definition without needed to undo
> the escaping needed for it to be an alias.
Good idea! I know there's a sort of very general distrust of aliases
anyway. Function is transparent. KISS.
Tx.