Slightly off topic ...

[David Shaw]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:02:52AM +0200, Johannes Graumann wrote:
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> ... but I'll try anyway: why does under bash (RH 7.1,  2.04.21(1))
> 	alias clearsign='mount /mnt/floppy && gpg --clearsign' 
> work, but 
> 	alias clearsign='mount /mnt/floppy && gpg --clearsign && umount /mnt/floppy' 
> not?

When you make an alias like that, you are prepending a string to your
input.  So, with the first alias, if you enter "clearsign foobar" you
are executing:
   mount /mnt/floppy && gpg --clearsign foobar

With the second alias, you are executing:
   mount /mnt/floppy && gpg --clearsign && umount /mnt/floppy foobar

The second line is clearly nonsensical.  You could pretty easily make
a shell script to do this instead:

  #!/bin/bash

  mount /mnt/floppy
  gpg --clearsign $*
  umount /mnt/floppy

David

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