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On Nov 8,  5:52pm, Mark Borges wrote:
} Subject: Re: Rationalized? aliases
}
} B> e="gnuclient -q"
} B> [[ $HOST != $HOMESYSTEM ]] && alias e="$=e -h $HOMESYSTEM" || alias e="$=e"
} 
} An interesting idea, but it doesn't seem to do the same thing on my
} system:
} 
} 	$ e="gnuclient -q"
} 	$ echo $=e
} 	gnuclient -q
} 	$ alias e="$=e -h $HOMESYSTEM"
} 	$ type e
} 	e is an alias for gnuclient

Looks like a bug.  Try it with just $e rather than $=e ... using $=e was
a typo anyway; with the double quotes around it, it *should* have become
completely equivalent to just $e.  Instead, zsh seems to have broken the
entire quoted string into two words at the space in the value of $e.


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