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Re:We are stuck with egrep and fgrep (unless you like beatin... by yubiox on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:30AM (#33192376)
what shell does this?
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Re:We are stuck with egrep and fgrep (unless you like beatin... by forgotpwd16 on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:52AM (#33192696)
Apparently zsh replaces =cmd with cmd's absolute path. TIL.
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Re:We are stuck with egrep and fgrep (unless you like beatin... by Beltalowda on Thursday October 13, 2022 @12:39PM (#33193388)
Yes, very useful to bypass aliases if need be, quickly edit a script ("vi =my-script"), etc. I don't think bash has it; you need to use where/whence/which/command/whatever (I can never remember, why are there so many?!)
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Re:We are stuck with egrep and fgrep (unless you like beatin... by btdmaster on Thursday October 13, 2022 @02:43PM (#33194828)
Hack: \command instead of command is very unlikely to be aliased, so should work fine.
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Re:We are stuck with egrep and fgrep (unless you like beatin... by ykonstant on Friday October 14, 2022 @01:59PM (#33206762)
This is a very useful hack, thanks. Unfortunately, my defensive scripting instincts do not allow me to use it on the "serious" situations.
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