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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: Multiline aliases in csh ?
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Date: 23 Oct 90 05:03:32 GMT
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In article <APS.90Oct23053623@kaarne.tut.fi>, aps@tut.fi (Suntioinen Ari) writes:
|> 	Is there any way to define multi line alias in csh ?
|> 	What I mean is (for example) if-else or foreach loop 
|> 	as a part of alias. I tried it some time and just 
|> 	couldn't make it work.

  In a word, no.

  There are ways to get around it for if-else, for example checking the
condition for every statement in the if.  If you have this in a shell script:

    if (foo) then
      bar
      baz
    else
      frelt
    endif

Then you can have an alias that does this:

    if (foo) bar; if (foo) baz; if (! foo) frelt

  I don't think there's any way to get around it for foreach.

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