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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> >> 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?

Piping's not a problem. You just use the ordinary
pipe character. The problem is selecting which file
to read, as there's no equivalent for $@ in ash
aliases. You can either read standard input or
hardcode in a filename, which are not terribly
impressive options.

David
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