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Re: Next word of alias to alias that end with <blank> is not checked for
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: Next word of alias to alias that end with <blank> is not checked for alias |
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Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:10:11 -0500 |
On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 01:59:55AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:56:33 -0500
> From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
> Message-ID: <0f03dd45-3e1a-54b1-f884-d3fb2c1c75e1@case.edu>
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> | Bash has never extended the `expand next word' semantics to multiple-level
> | alias expansion like this, and no one has missed it.
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> Bash is unique amongst shells in this - all other shells, including all
> ksh variants (though I don't have ksh88 to test) do produce "bar" from
> that test case.
The ksh88 installed as /usr/bin/ksh on HP-UX 10.20 prints "bar".