Re: Having an alias and a function with the same name leads to some sort of recursion

[Oğuz İsmail Uysal]

On 2/18/23 2:05 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> If the shell reads an unquoted word in the right position, it checks
> the word to see if it matches an alias name. If it matches, the shell
> replaces the word [in the input] with the alias value, and reads that
> value as if it had been read [from the input] instead of the word.
This isn't what bash does. See:

    $ alias foo='cat <<EOF
    bar
    EOF
    '
    $ foo
    $ date
    $ uname
    $ ^C
    $ date
    Sat Feb 18 08:41:32 AM +03 2023
    $

Other shells I tested print `bar' and return to prompt. I remember 
reporting a bug like this before but not sure if it was the same.