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From: chet@kiwi.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: Seeing control characters in aliases and functions
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Date: 15 Sep 89 20:03:56 GMT
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In article <8909142231.AA08032@comp.vuw.ac.nz> nickson@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Ray Nickson) writes:

>BTW, Will functions ever have real argument lists?:
>xsettitle (t) { echo -n -e "\033]2 $t\007"; }

Functions already have "real argument lists".  The only problem is that the
arguments are always named "$1", "$2", and so on.

;-)

Chet Ramey

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