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Exported aliasses ?
In article <MPG.11b745ad61f19dc7989705@news.surfnet.nl>, Real <real@earthling.net> wrote: >Is this as persistent as possible ? When I 'install' an alias this way >and invoke a second script, the defined aliases are lost. The same thing >for exported functions. Traditional Unix shells either can't do this at all, or require strange incantations. In rc, all functions are automatically placed in the environment, and will be visible to all descendant rc processes. For example (`; ' is my prompt): ; fn hi { echo Hello, world! } ; rc -c hi Hello, world! Tim. -- Tim Goodwin | `I can't believe that someone is releasing University of | something called "Unix" without something Leicester, UK | called "/bin/sh".' -- Randal L. Schwartz
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From: tjg@ltpcg.star.le.ac.uk (Tim J Goodwin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Exported aliasses ? Date: 27 May 1999 12:31:06 +0100 Organization: University of Leicester, UK Message-ID: <7ijadq$3lb$1@ltpcg.star.le.ac.uk> References: <MPG.11b4c7382ca5c1c2989703@news.surfnet.nl> <7ihc9s$40d$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7ihk9m$p39$2@magnum.mmm.com> <MPG.11b745ad61f19dc7989705@news.surfnet.nl>