SPUG:Re: don't recurse on alias expansion

[Michael R. Wolf]

Jeremy Mates <jmates at sial.org> writes:

> * Michael R. Wolf <MichaelRunningWolf at att.net>
> > Korn shell does it by quoting the name.  Any quoting mechanism
> > (single, double, backslash) on the name prevents alias substitution.
> > That's the idea.  Since I don't have a ksh handy, I haven't tested
> > this.
> > 
> >     alias cd='\cd "$@" && ls'
> 
> Goes wonky for me with the public domain ksh that ships with
> OpenBSD; appeared to be working for a bit, but fails in unexpected
> and strange ways.

Would it be "Breakfast Club" that has me ask "Can you describe the
strange and unexpected ways?"?

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Michael R. Wolf
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