On 2/2/22 8:25 AM, L A Walsh wrote: > I.e. My bash is posix compliant by default w/r/t aliases:
It's not, and that's how this whole issue got started. You're running bash-4.4. POSIX requires the following to work: alias switch=case echo $(switch foo in foo) echo ok 2;; esac ) and it simply doesn't, whether you run in posix mode or not. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/