From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: problem with zmv
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2016 07:44:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5842E867.2020700@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <161202195110.ZM3340@torch.brasslantern.com>
On 12/02/2016 07:51 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Dec 2, 6:59pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
> }
> } > On Dec 2, 4:15pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
> } >
> } > alias zmv='() { . zmv }'
> } >
> } Kewl.
>
> It occurs to me that it might be slightly better to use
>
> alias zmv='function { . zmv }'
>
> In the unlikely event that the "zmv" alias gets expanded as the second
> word on the line, you'll get an error instead of defining the first
> word on the line as a function that calls zmv.
Gotcha ... ok, thanks Bart, I'll not try to understand why, that's taken
on faith.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-03 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-01 16:00 Ray Andrews
2016-12-02 20:54 ` Ray Andrews
2016-12-02 21:15 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-12-02 23:36 ` Ray Andrews
2016-12-02 23:47 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-12-03 0:15 ` Ray Andrews
2016-12-03 0:49 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-12-03 2:59 ` Ray Andrews
2016-12-03 3:51 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-12-03 5:58 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-12-03 16:05 ` Ray Andrews
2016-12-03 15:44 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2016-12-03 17:05 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-12-03 23:45 ` Ray Andrews
2016-12-04 6:25 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-12-04 16:41 ` Ray Andrews
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