On 2009-02-24 19:32:05 -0500, Paul Jarc wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.org> wrote: > > I get the following errors with bash 3.2.39 under Debian/unstable: > > > > 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.
I can see that "a" is expanded if I use --posix. But "> /dev/null a" is not expanded, while the other shells expand it. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
