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Subject: Re: Alias call in function fails...
From: Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com>
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> On Jun 23, 2020, at 6:43 PM, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 4:30 PM Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com> =
wrote:
>>=20
>> Ahh=E2=80=A6 ok.  Thank you.  I remember reading that now (before =
your changes)
>> but didn=E2=80=99t really ingest it.
>=20
> The more classic example is something excessively abbreviated such as
>=20
> % alias -g L=3D'|less'
> % find ~ -name \*.gif L

For me, I think I would more likely do something like:

% alias -g opts=3D=E2=80=9C-a -b -c -d=E2=80=9D
% foo opts path/to/file

But, given my relative inexperience with zsh, I not think about alias -g =
and
would likely do:

% opts=3D=E2=80=9C-a -b -c -d=E2=80=9D
% foo $opts path/to/file

or use alias -g to save a really long ugly path.  etc.