On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 14:04, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 01/17/2011 01:24 AM, Thomas Wiedmann wrote: > > Hello, > > > > After defining an alias, e. g. > > > > alias laf='ls -la' | grep -v "^d" > > That defined an alias in the subshell used to form the pipeline. > Aliases in child processes do not affect the parent process. >
And, using my "paranormal powers", I'd say the command line the OP wants is: alias laf='ls -la | grep -v "^d"' (note the second quote char was moved to the end) > > laf > > bash:: laf: command not found > > Because the parent process still doesn't have an alias defined. > > > > > What may be the reason, that the use of an alias, defined, had not been > > accepted? > > What has to be done to resolve this problem? > > Don't pipe the output of alias into another command, thereby avoiding > the subshell that would limit the alias to just the child shell. > He never wanted to pipe the alias command :) The real answer is: Double-check the quoting rules, so that pipe char doesn't get interpreted by bash. > This is not cygwin-specific. > ditto. ___________ Julio Costa -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
