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From: rog@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] v8 shell
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:51:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b175b4ef646fcfe05f643d5672952ed0@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <059601c3aa55$ed03d7e0$b9844051@insultant.net>

> whatis & builtin were _essential_, so you could write a function like cd, so
> it could use 'builtin' so you could have a function called 'cd' and it would do
> what you wanted.

there's a builtin command built in to bash, i discovered recently,
but it gets it so wrong... i wanted to write a shell function
to replace ls:

$ ls() {
	builtin ls "$@" | cat
}
$ ls
-bash: builtin: ls: not a shell builtin
$

they don't seem to have a clue.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-14 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.GSO.4.21.0311131606190.27715-100000@zenon.ceid.upatras.gr>
2003-11-13 16:06 ` Taj Khattra
2003-11-13 17:41   ` rob pike, esq.
2003-11-13 23:44     ` George Michaelson
2003-11-14  0:43       ` rog
2003-11-14  6:59         ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-17 10:26           ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-11-17 12:13             ` Charles Forsyth
2003-11-18  9:48               ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-11-14 12:04         ` John Murdie
2003-11-14 18:01           ` rog
2003-11-14 19:04             ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-14 19:18               ` rog
2003-11-14 19:31                 ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-14 22:25             ` Roman Shaposhnick
2003-11-16 11:45             ` Richard Miller
2003-11-16 12:01               ` Geoff Collyer
2003-11-16 12:21                 ` Richard Miller
2003-11-17 20:31                   ` rog
2003-11-16 14:23               ` Russ Cox
2003-11-16 14:35                 ` Richard Miller
2003-11-15 15:03           ` a
     [not found] ` <oprykztjlztsux9g@smtp.borf.com>
2003-11-14  0:41   ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-14 17:51     ` rog [this message]
2003-11-14 18:51       ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-17 10:26       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-11-14  7:05   ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-14  8:13 boyd, rounin
2003-11-14 18:12 Richard C Bilson
2003-11-14 19:09 ` rog
2003-11-14 19:12 ` boyd, rounin

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