What does alias -L do?

What does alias -L do?

[zzapper]

Hi,
(Sorry if you see this posting twice)

What does alias -L do?; the doc is either silent on this or obscure

zzapper
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Re: What does alias -L do?

[Jean Chalard]

> Hi,
> (Sorry if you see this posting twice)
>
> What does alias -L do?; the doc is either silent on this or obscure

As far as I understand the info file, I think it just prints what you
have to do in a startup script to bind the alias (or every alias in
the current shell, if no argument is given) the same way it is in the
current shell.

For example :
$ alias foo=bar
$ alias foo
foo=bar
$ alias -L foo
alias foo=bar
$ alias -g foo=bar
$ alias \foo
foo=bar
$ alias -L \foo
alias -g foo=bar
$

See ? It prints what you should put in, say, .zshrc to have the
current behaviour of this alias.

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J

Re: What does alias -L do?

[Christian Schneider]

* Thus spake zzapper (david@tvis.co.uk):
> What does alias -L do?; the doc is either silent on this or obscure

,----[ zshbuiltins(1) /alias ]
| If the -L flag is present, then print each alias in a manner suitable
| for putting in a startup script. The exit status is nonzero if a
| name (with no value) is given for which no alias has been defined.
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