Re: listing aliases

[Chet Ramey]

> Here is my patch to drop the initial alias string when the shell is in
> posix mode, thus not breaking stuff that expects the default behaviour.
> 
> POSIX says 'alias' should work like Korn 'alias', in my interpretation.
> 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/alias.html#tag_04_02_18
> 
> Is this a sensible suggestion or Not Clever?

I made a slightly different fix, but I agree that POSIX says to not
include the `alias' in the output.  It seems nonsensical to require
output that can't be directly re-used as input while requiring that
the ouptut be properly quoted.

Chet

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