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Re: what can be global aliases used for?

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From: Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>
To: "Roman Perepelitsa" <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: what can be global aliases used for?
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 18:27:50 -0500
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2023, at 4:19 PM, Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 10:13 PM Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>   1) Autoconf uses ${1+"$@"} instead of "$@" to work around a bug
>>      in pre-SVR3 Bourne shells.
>
> Fascinating.
>
> This made me Google SVR3. That's System V, Release 3, right? 1987.
> Before the first release of bash and zsh.

That's right!  Absolutely ancient, but -- to be fair -- downright
modern compared to its ancestors [1].  Sensible "$@" [2]?  Functions
that don't trash the global positional parameters [3]?  Sign me up.

  [1]: https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/
  [2]: https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/bourne_args/
  [3]: https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/function_parameters.html

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vq

References:
- what can be global aliases used for?
  - From: Sebastian Gniazdowski
- Re: what can be global aliases used for?
  - From: Lawrence Velázquez
- Re: what can be global aliases used for?
  - From: Roman Perepelitsa

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