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Managing functions
Hi.
I also like functions, but they can cause clutter and complexity. One way to address that is to use an autoload-like facility. Such a feature allows the functions to be placed in a separate directory, say ~/.functions, one function (or group of related functions) to a file. I think these ideas were first found in ksh.
Regrettably, autoload is not built into bash. However, you may have access to a set of functions that perform that task. In my main workstation system (Debian 5, lenny), these functions are in:
Code:
/usr/share/doc/bash/examples/functions
in the filenames containing the string autoload.
I have used them with (most recently) GNU bash 3.2.39 and they seem to work correctly.
So whenever you create a new function, or you find something interesting on the 'net, you can just drop the file in .functions, and you'll be set.
Looking briefly over my examples, the functions in .functions can be made to work with ksh (and probably zsh, but I have not tried that), assuming no bashisms are present.
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Hi
Linux
Set up - alias ls='ls -l'
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sub()
{
ls
}
sub
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