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Re: `whence -v X` shows file for functions, but not alias; workaround?

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From: Eric Cook <llua@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: `whence -v X` shows file for functions, but not alias; workaround?
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 23:21:05 -0500
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On 01/12/2017 12:24 PM, Timothee Cour wrote:
> * how do i search for where an alias is defined?
> `whence -v my_function`: works
> my_function is a shell function from /home/timothee/.zshrc
> 
> `whence -v my_alias`: doesn't do that:
> my_alias is an alias for ...
> Could that be implemented? What's a workaround? (besides grep of course)
> 
> * why not also include line info?
> 
zsh -lxic : 2> >(grep -F '> alias')

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