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From: mvadh@cbnews.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: alias in KSH ?
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.123249.29027@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 12:32:49 GMT
References: <1991Feb19.052212.10229@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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In article <1991Feb19.052212.10229@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> luj@gus16.ecn.purdue.edu (Jun Lu) writes:
"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.

not true!  i have
alias ^L="print \"$(tput clear)\c\""

"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 ?

try the old trick
alias -- +x=foo
      ^^
      it works for me

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