Re: Bash sometimes cannot find aliases

[Clark J. Wang]

Good news:

I met this problem again a few minutes ago. Then I looked back to find out
what I was doing. After some investigation I could stably reproduce this
problem by following steps (tested with bash 3.1.17, 3.2.39 and 4.1.0):

bash$ alias xx='echo 142857'    ### Make sure there isn't an external cmd
named `xx'
bash$ export EDITOR=vi
bash$ set -o vi
bash$    ### Press ESC to get out of vi's INSERT mode
bash$    ### Press v to invoke vi to input a cmd like `ls', save and exit,
the `ls' cmd runs.
bash$ xx
-bash: xx: command not found
bash$ xx
142857
bash$

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Clark J. Wang <dearvoid@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Dan Zwell <dzwell@zwell.net> wrote:
>
>> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
>> Machine: x86_64
>> OS: linux-gnu
>> Compiler: gcc
>> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64'
>> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'
>> -DCONF_VENDOR='unknown' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash'
>> -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib   -march=x86-64
>> -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe
>> uname output: Linux mordor 2.6.32-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 18 23:30:46
>> CET 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel
>> GNU/Linux
>> Machine Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>>
>> Bash Version: 4.1
>> Patch Level: 2
>> Release Status: release
>>
>> Description:
>>        When I attempt to run an alias, Bash occasionally says the command
>> is not found. Re-running the command generally succeeds. This also occurs
>> with aliases that are named after existing programs. For example, running
>> "ls", which is aliased to "ls --color", occasionally results in "ls" being
>> run without the "--color" argument (the alias is bypassed).
>>
>> Repeat-By:
>>        This problem seems to occur once every few hundred aliased commands
>> I run. It seems more frequent immediately after sourcing a .bashrc file. I
>> cannot reproduce it with a loop that repeatedly runs an aliased command.
>>
>> Is this a known issue? I may be able to help debug this (perhaps by
>> modifying my build to log state when a command is not found).
>>
>> I have the same problem. It's not 4.1 specific. I don't know how to
> reproduce it either but I can see it from time to time.
>
>> Thanks
>> -Dan
>>
>>
>>
>