Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 08:21:35 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: dorey_s@infonie.fr Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need to clear a point on aliases Message-ID: <199811171621.IAA28963@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199811171104.MAA02480@infmail.infonie.fr>
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>From: dorey_s@infonie.fr
>Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:57:19 +0100
>> lm /bin/ls \| more
>I merely understand what does it do, but why you put a '\' before the '|'.
>I know that when you put a \ in front of a caracter it says take it as a
>caracter even if it is a special caracter. In this case why do you need to
>say that it has to be taken as caracter.
The purpose, in this case, is to defer interpretation of the character
that is used to specify a pipeline until the alias ("lm", in this case)
is used, rather than at the time it is defined.
david
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