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charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Seq: 27957 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 4:04 PM Perry Smith wrote: > > I want to write =E2=80=9Csomething=E2=80=9D that effectively does > > function xlargs > { > tr =E2=80=98\n=E2=80=99 =E2=80=98\0=E2=80=99 | xargs -0 $* > } > > > Would you recommend doing this as an autoload function or as an alias? T= he reason I ask is because back when I used bash and something called rvm, = all of my aliases proved to be a horrible wrench for their bash shell scrip= ts. So I=E2=80=99ve sorta sworn off of aliases but I=E2=80=99m wondering i= f that is imprudent. If you are doing multiple commands I would do a function, but I wonder what's the point of this when you can do: xargs -d '\n' $* --=20 Felipe Contreras