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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.