skel ~/.bashrc (was RE: HOME)

Mon May 5 20:27:00 GMT 2003

On Mon, 5 May 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:
> [snip]
> $ info Bash # says that shell functions are preferable to aliases...
> anyone who can explain?
> [snip]

Shell functions allow parameters, and can be exported. Otherwise there's
no difference, FWICS.
	Igor
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