Re: alias for commands broken in bash 2.05.0

[william]

Paul,
Thanks!  I'll give that a try.
I have used shell functions in some of my personal scripts.
William
   From owl486.scs.com!rachael.scs.com!multivac.cwru.edu!prj Tue Aug  7 
18:52:16 2001
   From: Paul Jarc <prj@po.cwru.edu>
   Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 18:52:19 -0400

   william@nscs.fast.net writes:
   >> aliases are not exectued within scripts.
   > what am I supposed to do instead?

   Rewrite them as shell functions.  Functions work for interactive and
   non-interactive shells.
   alias abc=pwd
   abc() { pwd ${1+"$@"}; }
   paul