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		scrollaway on June 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Art of Command Line I use an alias for it: `function launch { type $1 >/dev/null \|\| { print "$1 not found" && return 1 } $@ &>/dev/null &\| } alias launch="launch "`

_pvxk on June 17, 2015 [–]

why the alias as well as the function?

scrollaway on June 17, 2015 | [–]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo#Passing_aliases

_pvxk on June 17, 2015 | | [–]

ah, thanks for that tip :-)

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