[ILUG] A little grep mystery

[Stephen Shirley]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 03:55:30PM +0100, Liam Bedford wrote:
> alias claims nothing to do with ps, I can't figure out how to get functions
> listed, but I don't make any, and I don't think debian do either.

'type' is your friend:

diamond at skynet:~(0)> type ls
ls is aliased to `ls -F --color=auto'
diamond at skynet:~(0)> type check
check is a function
check ()
{
    ps f -f -u ${1:-$LOGNAME}
}
diamond at skynet:~(0)> type ps
ps is /bin/ps
diamond at skynet:~(0)>

etc etc. It's pretty neat.

Steve
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