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Re: Translation of init scripts



On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:36:48 -0300, Lalo Martins <lalo@webcom.com> said:
>
> Aliases were my first thought; I don't remember why I gave up on
> them :-) I guess it's a compatibility problem... perhaps
> aliases/functions don't work the same in all *sh variants

The Bourne shell doesn't provide aliases.

> Functions are even worse. Plain sh for sure doesn't support them, and
> then bash and zsh have different sintaxes.

That's the opposite of true.  You can rely on any Bourne-type shell to
provide functions declared like

      foo() {
      	  body
      }

-- 
Roderick Schertler
roderick@argon.org


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