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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
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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.
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