Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!killer!pollux!dalsqnt!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: what's the use of "{ list }" in /bin/sh? Message-ID: <3748@rpp386.UUCP> Date: 9 Jul 88 00:44:29 GMT References: <23590@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <409@fmeed1.UUCP> <11755@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <22305@tis.llnl.gov>Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers Lines: 19 In article ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: >> Besides obvious uses mentioned in previous articles thus far, >> recent Bourne shells allow a rudimentary aliasing using "{" and "}". > >Rudimentary? Shell functions are much more powerful and straight >forward that the Csh alias kluding. this is a silly religious war. both the bourne shell and the cshell are capable of the same order of computation (turing machine macros in cshell anyone ??? ;-) to increase the complexity of a cshell alias, source a cshell script. - john. -- John F. Haugh II +--------- Cute Chocolate Quote --------- HASA, "S" Division | "USENET should not be confused with UUCP: killer!rpp386!jfh | something that matters, like CHOCOLATE" DOMAIN: jfh@rpp386.uucp | -- with my apologizes