On 08/25/2017 10:00 AM, cyg Simple wrote: > If the value of an alias ends in a space the word following the issuance > of the alias command is also checked for alias expansion.
In fact, this behavior is POSIX-mandated, so that you can do things like: alias exec='exec ' and get alias expansion on 'foo' when you do 'exec foo' > Example: > > $ alias t1='echo abc' > $ alias t2='dev' > $ t1 t2 > abc t2 > > $ alias t1='echo abc ' > $ t1 t2 > abc def Doesn't quite match what you typed above (dev vs. def), but illustrates the point. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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