guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (04/18/91)
Is this some sneaky trick to drag some poor newbie into cross-posting to "talk.bizarre", so you can roast him? In any case, for those who are curious: >When I list my aliases one of them shows up parenthesized. It >is one that is of the form > > alias foo foo -options > >Typing "alias" results in > > foo (foo -options) > >Other aliases which have different names than the command they >alias to and aliases which have been quoted do not seem to get >parenthesized. A quick look at the 4.3BSD C shell code indicates that aliases with only one token aren't enclosed in parentheses, and those with more than one token are. alias foo "foo -options" has only one token, namely '"foo -options"'. alias foo foo -options has two, namely 'foo' and '-options'.