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From: richard@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Novice games (was "Prompt Games")
Message-ID: <269@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Mar 88 23:15:32 GMT
References: <2336@tekcrl.TEK.COM> <3002@codas.att.com> <53@vsi.UUCP> <827@unmvax.unm.edu>
Reply-To: richard@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Richard Tobin)
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In article <827@unmvax.unm.edu> mike@turing.UNM.EDU.UUCP (Michael I. Bushnell) writes:
>  % alias "unalias" \\unalias
>  % alias "alias" \\alias

>  ...

>There is no way out short of starting a new csh.

False.  What you need is something that happens after alias expansion, but
before built-in detection.  Like variable substitution.  For example:

aiva% alias "unalias" \\unalias
aiva% alias "alias" \\alias
aiva% unalias alias
unalias: Command not found.
aiva%
aiva% set b=unalias
aiva% $b unalias
aiva% unalias alias
aiva%



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Richard Tobin,                         JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed             
AI Applications Institute,             ARPA:  R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
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