Re: Incorrect alias expansion within command substitution

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2022, 21:59 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 2/2/22 1:40 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> > Op 01-02-22 om 15:23 schreef Chet Ramey:
> >> Historically, bash (and ksh93) has favored the former. Just about all
> the
> >> other shells claiming some sort of POSIX conformance favor the latter
> (all
> >> the ash-based shells, yash, mksh).
> >>
> >> What are your plans here?
> >
> > I've no current plans. Any remotely plausible use of aliases is not going
> > to be affected either way. I've done some pretty innovative stuff in
> > modernish that involves aliases and that too would be unaffected. In my
> > view, this difference is relevant to standards and regression test
> writers
> > and probably no one else.
>
> I agree; most current scripts will continue to run just fine.
>
> > Having said that, I've never understood why ksh stores command
> > substitutions as unparsed source code (including comments and all) in the
> > parse tree and only parses that at execution time -- including in dot
> > scripts (which are otherwise parsed in their entirety before execution)
> and
> > shcomp bytecode output. That seems bizarre. It doesn't do that for
> regular
> > subshells in parentheses or for process substitutions.
>
> Probably because the paren commands are never parts of words and it makes
> no sense to join a process substitution to another word.
>
> But command substitutions are parts of words (granted, most of the time the
> complete word) so it's simpler to retain the text, parse it again to find
> the closing `)' during expansion, and perform the command substitution
> than to carry around an arbitrary number of parse trees along with the
> word, including where each should start and end. It's probably more
> bookkeeping than Korn wanted to  do, though Ken Almquist managed it.
>

you just need two parts
an expander, i guess a language parser and the alias expansion is like text
expansion
second part is again language interpret but then execute

>
> Chet
>
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