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Abbreviated aliasing would be a great feature to bring to shells

Being able to mark in an alias definition a point of minimal abbreviation, an old feature of VAX/VMS shell (DCL) would be really nice in modern *nix shells.

In DCL you used to be able to define an alias (in its own weird syntax) which would be something like this:

Code:

$ alias fuz*zyanimals="cat dog"

The asterisk marks minimal unique abbreviation for the alias, such that all of the following invocations would work:

Code:

fuz
fuzz
fuzzy
fuzzya
fuzzyan
fuzzyanim
fuzzyanima
fuzzyanimal
fuzzyanimals

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alias

alias(4)							   File Formats 							  alias(4)

NAME

       alias - alias table file of encoding names

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/iconv/alias

DESCRIPTION

       This file contains the alias table of encoding names for iconv_open(3C).

       The format of the alias table is as follows:

	 "%s %s
", <variant encoding name>, <canonical encoding name>

       The string specified for the variant encoding name is case-insensitive. A line beginning with '#' is treated as a comment.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       iconv(3C), iconv_close(3C), iconv_open(3C), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    2 Oct 2001								  alias(4)