Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!itsgw!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!udel!princeton!njin!aramis.rutgers.edu!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: what's the use of "{ list }" in /bin/sh? Message-ID:Date: 8 Jul 88 01:58:11 GMT References: <23590@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <409@fmeed1.UUCP> <11755@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <22305@tis.llnl.gov> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 7 > 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. -Ron