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From: luj@gus16.ecn.purdue.edu (Jun Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: alias in KSH ?
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.052212.10229@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 91 05:22:12 GMT
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ksh(1) states:
	The first character of an alias name can be any printable character,
	but the rest of the characters must be the same as for a valid
	identifier.

So here it goes:

	alias +x=foo

i.e. I want to creat an alias with name "+x".  But above way didn't work.
I also tried other ways to esacape "+" but all failed.  Is this a bug in ksh
or do I simply miss something ?

Thanks,
-- Jun

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