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

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/18/23 12:50 AM, Oğuz İsmail Uysal wrote:

>      $ 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.

Yes, in this instance, bash tries to read the text of the here-document
from the input instead of the alias value. It's been on the list to fix
for a while. It's not hard, just hasn't gotten there yet in priority.

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