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Re: Bash expansion nuance or bug?


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Bash expansion nuance or bug?
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 03:33:33 +0000

> I ran into an oddity in alias expansion.  I don't know if it
> is a bug, or some feature I'm unfamiliar with:

>From 'man bash', under the section ALIASES:
"If  the last  character  of  the  alias value is a blank, then the
next command word following the alias is also checked for alias
expansion."

This is intentional, so that you can do something like:
alias nice='nice -n 5 '

and then 'nice ls' will still use the aliases you normally have
for ls.

-- 
Eric Blake




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