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

[Matt Graham]

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.

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