[PLUG] Re: strange ln -s behavior

Charlie Schluting charlie at schluting.com
Thu Jun 21 16:18:09 UTC 2007


On 6/21/07 8:23 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>> "Rogan" == Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Rogan> In bash you can also prepend a command with a "\" to "unalias" it just
> Rogan> once.  eg:
> 
> Rogan> $ \ls --color=always
> 
> But the proper answer is
> NEVER NEVER NEVER OVERLOAD BUILT IN COMMANDS.
> 

Well for the case of your examples, sure, I agree. But overloading ls
with 'ls -F --color=always' is quite harmless, for example. I'm sure
there's many other cases where it's harmless too, so saying "NEVER"
isn't really necessary :)

 -Charlie



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