Re: 'official function declaration format' doesn't work if alias defined

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 03:49:35PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I had an alias referring to printf that I wanted to replace
> with a function.
> 
> But then ran into problems with the alias taking precedence over the
> function.

Yup.  That's one of the many evils of aliases.  They need to be removed
(unalias) before you can redefine them as functions.

That's why I use "exec bash" to reread .bashrc, not just "source .bashrc".
The latter can be confused by previous settings.  An "exec bash" always
starts clean.