Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:56:19 +0100 From: dom@happygiraffe.net (Dominic Mitchell) To: h <h@erathia.be> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Dima Dorfman <dd@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dict ports suggestion Message-ID: <20050716155619.GA26563@ppe.happygiraffe.net> In-Reply-To: <200507161559.07864.h@erathia.be> References: <200507152118.29557.h@erathia.be> <200507161124.25731.h@erathia.be> <20050716093052.GA20040@trit.org> <200507161559.07864.h@erathia.be>
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On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 03:59:06PM +0200, h wrote:
> On Saturday 16 July 2005 11:30, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> > In csh, you can do this:
> >
> > ? alias dict '\dict \!* | more'
>
> i was told to try
>
> dict() { dict "$@" | less; }
>
> but when trying it it acted like a fork bomb. you can't stuff @'s in bash
> aliases, so i wonder how to translate that command line alias
You need to arrange for the dict inside the function to not refer to
itself. There are two ways to do this:
dict() { /usr/local/bin/dict "$@" | less; }
or
dict() { command dict "$@" | less; }
The "command" command is a bash builtin that suppresses function lookup.
-Dom
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