On Tuesday 24 February 2009 21:14:46 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > 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.
same behavior can be seen when typing things manually in an interactive shell -mike
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