Re: conditional aliases are broken

[Eric Blake]

On 08/18/2011 08:44 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> > how do I write a function that would print the same as
> > $ \ls | cat

Useless use of cat.  This can be done with \ls -1.

> f(){ for a in "$@"; do echo "$a"; done; }

Or skip the loop altogether:

f(){ printf %s\\n "%@"; }

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