How can I write a function in zsh that invokes an existing command with the same name as the function itself? For example, I’ve tried this to illustrate my question:
function ls
{
ls -l $1 $2 $3
}
When I execute it with ls * I get the following:
ls:1: maximum nested function level reached
I assume this is because the function is being called recursively. How I can avoid that?
This is a crude example, and in this case an alias would do the job, but I have a more complex example where an alias isn’t suitable and so I would need to write a function.
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Method 1
What is happening is that you are recursively calling your ls function. In order to use the binary, you can use ZSH’s command builtin.
function ls {
command ls -l "<a href="https://getridbug.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="052145">[email protected]</a>"
}
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