Re: Having an alias and a function with the same name leads to some sort of recursion

[Dale R. Worley]

>> Looking at the manual page, it says
>>
>>     ALIASES
>>        Aliases  allow a string to be substituted for a word when it is used 
>> as
>>        the first word of a simple command.

Martin suggested (but IIUC didn't sent to this list):
> "Beginning of a simple command" should probably be replaced by something
> more along the lines of "beginning of any command that does not start with
> a keyword (such as "while", "if", "case", etc) or assignment.

Though I think by "keyword" he means "reserved word".

Dale