On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson <ch...@cfajohnson.com>wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Clark J. Wang wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Marc Herbert <marc.herb...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Le 04/08/2010 15:29, Clark J. Wang a écrit :
>>>
>>>> I do not agree. Aliases are much simpler to use than functions.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Please provide examples.
>>>
>>> The following is a part of my aliases. I'll have to write much more code
>>> if
>>>
>> I define them all as functions.
>>
>
> This is "much more code":
>
> F(){ find "$@"; }
>
> This simple func definition will be 4 lines in my coding style. :) And I
like adding at least one blank line between functions.
> than:
>
> alias F=find
>
>
> I don't think functions are better than aliases here. Any idea?
>>
>
> Many reasons why functions are generally better have already been
> given.
>
> I understand functions are *generally* better and there're quite a lot of
functions defined in my bashrc. I just don't agree we have to avoid using
aliases.
> --
> Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com>
> Author:
> Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
> Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
