Re: tlug: Re: file counting

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Scott> On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Jim Schweizer wrote:

    >> I see. Thanks for the info. I guess I'll just stay with the
    >> shell script. (I learn something new every day on this list :)

    Scott> me too :) .. nothing wrong with a good shell script in this
    Scott> case, however.  It would be even better if you could have
    Scott> find count the hits for you without using a pipe..

???

Function declaration syntax is only slightly different and far more
powerful than aliases.  Since I learned to put parens after the name
and braces around the code, I haven't written a throwaway script---and 
write a lot more of those, let me tell you.

And it has the advantage that you just keep .bashrc in an Emacs buffer 
all day and do M-! "declare -f <function>" to get the text in
there, instead of having to find-file the script ;-)

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