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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > > > #!/bin/sh
> > > > bunzip2 -c "$@" | less


> > Could I instead use this last line as part
> > of an alias?
>
> No.  You could do an alias for the bunzip2 -c
> bit, but you won't be able to pipe to less.
Even with the @ in the alias?

Can you in general not pipe to less in an alias?
> Cheers,
> Steven
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