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Skaperen
October 17th, 2019, 12:37 AM
what is the general thought or opinion of bash users on making functions in place of, or to serve as aliases? for example, instead of:


alias term='kill -TERM'

doing:


term(){ kill -TERM "$@";}


i find functions to be easier to code in more complex things, and also easier to deal with when everything is in one place (e.g. doing "set|less" to see them all). thoughts? opinions?