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Re: Incorrect alias substitution
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: Incorrect alias substitution |
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Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:32:05 -0500 |
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Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:
> I get the following errors with bash 3.2.39 under Debian/unstable:
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> bash -c 'alias a="echo OK >&2"
> a
> > /dev/null a'
> bash: line 1: a: command not found
> bash: line 2: a: command not found
aliases aren't expanded by a non-interactive bash by default. If you
do "shopt -s expand_aliases", then they'll be expanded.
paul