Re: embraced redefinition of aliases and function causes endless recursion

[Paul Jarc]

Al Elgert <elgert@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
> Repeat-By:
>         alias cd=cda
>         function cda() { cd "$@"; }
>         alias cd=cda
>         cd /

You're telling bash to perform infinite recursion.  So bash will
dutifully attempt to do that until it crashes.  If you want ot make a
wrapper function around an existing command with the same name, this
is how to do it:
function cd() { command cd "$@"; }
See "help command" for more information.


paul