From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de>
To: Timothy J Luoma <luomat+zsh+users@luomat.peak.org>,
zsh-users@math.gatech.edu (Zsh users list)
Subject: Re: confusion over the proper way to make an alias
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 16:33:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199711071533.QAA05401@hydra.ifh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Timothy J Luoma"'s message of "Fri, 07 Nov 1997 09:54:47 MET." <199711071454.JAA15523@luomat.peak.org>
Timothy J Luoma wrote:
>
> I have been setting up a new zsh account on a LINUX machine running ZSH
> 3.0.3 and found that I could not use:
>
> alias ls="ls $LS_OPTIONS"
>
> I had to use
>
> alias ls="command ls $LS_OPTIONS"
>
> or else I got the 'job table full' message mentioned in the FAQ.
That means you have function, as well as an alias, defined to ls(). It's
possible to have both, but only the function can fill your job table and
needs the `command ls' inside it. (Also, remember the catch: if you define
an alias for ls, and the function next with 'ls() {...}', the alias
gets expanded in the definition, causing havoc.)
> I went to my NeXT machine running 3.0.5 and found that if I used:
>
> alias ls="command ls $LS_OPTIONS"
>
> I got:
> /usr/local/gnu/bin/ls: ls: No such file or directory
This should certainly work. I can only think of checking paths, value
of $LS_OPTIONS, symbolic links, everything you've probably thought of.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de> Tel: +49 33762 77366
WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Fax: +49 33762 77413
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron --- Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik Zeuthen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-11-07 15:38 UTC|newest]
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1997-11-07 14:54 Timothy J Luoma
1997-11-07 15:33 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
1997-11-07 15:35 ` Timothy J Luoma
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