Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 08:00:20 +0200
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| They are fine as an interactive feature but definitely don't belong in
| shell scripts.
They're not fine anywhere, anything sane that can be done with an alias
can be done better with a function.
Omitting them from the standard would stop forcing shells to implement this
nonsense, and allow it to wither and die.
| Besides the ordinary user doesn't expect anything beyond simple aliases
| like `la='ls -A' ll='ls -lh''
la() { command ls -A "$@"; }; ll() { command ls -lh "$@"; }
Slightly longer to type, but just as good, and if desired, can easily
be extended to do so much more (different default options depending upon
which directory you're in, ...)
kre
ps: "command" in the functions is just in case ls also becomes a function,
and those ones want to run the real ls, but that's optional, it all depends
what is wanted ... with functions you get a choice.
