Re: built in bash commands that change directory circumvent user defined cd

[nadim khemir]

Thank you now I know that I need a cd function rather than an alias.

N

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 11:39 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

On 11/20/16 1:20 PM, nadim khemir wrote:
> Will it also call the cd alias?

No.  Alias expansion takes place very early on in parsing, as part of
lexical analysis.

Chet

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