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Re: What is the difference between a newline and a semi-colon?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: What is the difference between a newline and a semi-colon? |
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Fri, 30 May 2014 12:49:51 -0600 |
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On 05/30/2014 12:40 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com> writes:
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>> Thanks, Eric & Chet. I hope nobody ever needs to load up a set of
>> aliases within a Makefile script.
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> A non-interactive shell does not have aliases.
Unless you explicitly turn them on. And there are shell scripts that do so:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=gnulib-tool#l79
but yeah, not your typical practice.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
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