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From: rich@rexago1.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Bourne shell modifications, past and future
Message-ID: <121@rexago1.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-Nov-85 20:08:32 EST
Article-I.D.: rexago1.121
Posted: Sat Nov 23 20:08:32 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 25-Nov-85 07:17:55 EST
References: <1943@gatech.CSNET> <10@druri.UUCP> <21@pixdoc.UUCP>
Reply-To: rich@rexago1.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
Organization: Roadway Express Inc., Akron, OH
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Keywords: history, job control, upcoming good stuff
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Summary: 

In article <21@pixdoc.UUCP> vsh@pixdoc.UUCP (Steve Harris) writes:
>> Out of curiosity, just why don't you want to put in command aliasing?
>It's there, called shell functions!  e.g.:
>	l () { ls -FCs $* ; }

I'd just like to point out that bourne shell ONLY reads .profile & that
shell functions do not export to subshells.  Thus, when I call shl from
my .profile (something vaguely akin to job control) all shell functions
go bye-bye.  (of course ksh addresses this quite nicely).

K. Richard Magill