On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:30:58PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I will agree that, if you only have a few commands that you regularly > want timed, then an alias is probably the easiest way to do it. > > I have the following alias: alias pr='pr -F -l 59', and it works just > fine, no recursion at all. I just checked 'man bash' and this is what > it says: > Quite right. I had mistakenly setup that little "bomb" in a shell script, like this: #!/bin/bash LANG= exec mutt Of course, so I would not need to remember to type something, I helpfully named the script and place it in ~/bin, which was ahead of /usr/bin in my PATH :-) Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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