Functions

[John Summerfied]

hbrhodes wrote:
> i have a problem, i'm trying to get a function to work with RAR, an 
> archiver for Linux.
> i'm typing in the following and all i get is the command listing for 
> commands and switches:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> function rar { /dir/path/rar/rar ; }
> 
> or
> 
> rar () { /dir/path/rar/rar ; }
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> neither one really works, 

No surprise. You need to pass the args:
function rar()
{
   /dir/path/rar/rar $@
}

Better tho to put rar in $PATH. If you don't want to do that, this works 
too:
alias rar='/dir/path/rar/rar'


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