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Re: why does this define bla() instead of respect the newline as command
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: why does this define bla() instead of respect the newline as command separator |
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Fri, 19 Mar 2021 09:11:22 -0400 |
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On 3/19/21 4:12 AM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
eval $'alias n=bla\nn() { type $FUNCNAME ; }\nn'
bla is a function
bla ()
{
type $FUNCNAME
}
it was supposed to be n() ..
`n' is the first word in a position where a simple command can be parsed,
so it's subject to alias expansion.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/