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From: mike@turing.UNM.EDU (Michael I. Bushnell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Novice games (was "Prompt Games")
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Date: 28 Feb 88 05:25:32 GMT
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Reply-To: mike@turing.UNM.EDU.UUCP (Michael I. Bushnell)
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The discussion about aliasing "alias" led me to the following trick:

  % alias "unalias" \\unalias
  % alias "alias" \\alias

The recorded alias for unalias is '\unalias', and that for alias is
'\alias'.

Now, when someone types 'alias', the shell turns that into '\alias',
and then, the backslash suppresses alias expansion, and the shell
tries to execute the program 'alias'.  It ends up printing "alias:
command not found.".  Of course, the same thing happens for unalias.
There is no way out short of starting a new csh.

				--Mike
				Michael I. Bushnell
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