using echo 'text' > file (to add to last line of several documents)

[Dale Farnsworth]

> On 10/27/2010 01:02 PM, Matt Graham wrote:
> > From: Eric Shubert<ejs at shubes.net>
> >> On 10/27/2010 12:30 PM, Matt Graham wrote:
> >>> alias ..='cd ..'
> >>> alias ...='cd ../..'
> >>>
> >>> ....and I don't believe you can write a script named ".." without
> >>> a lot of fooling around....
> >> What happens though when you try to use the real command? Does it
> >> result in: $ cd cd ..
> >
> > "man bash" , the ALIASES section:
> >
> > The first word of the replacement text is tested for aliases, but a word that
> > is identical to an alias being expanded is not expanded a second time.  This
> > means that one may alias ls to ls -F, for instance, and bash does not try to
> > recursively expand the replacement text.
> >
> > No idea what non-bash things do.
> >
> 
> That doesn't appear to me to say you won't get
> $ cd cd ..
> if you type
> $ cd ..
> when your alias is defined.

The alias is for "..", not for "cd".

Only the first token (the command) on a line is checked for aliases, not the
remaining tokens (arguments to the command).

-Dale