On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 01:59:37PM +0100, Roger Price wrote: > On a Debian 12 machine with bash 5.2.15-2+b7, I had this alias in my .bashrc > > alias w3m='/usr/bin/w3m -no-cookie -o auto-image=TRUE ' > > I understand that aliases are frowned on and should be written as functions, > so > I wrote
Wait a minute...
> [[ $(type -t w3m) == "w3m" ]] && unalias w3m
> w3m() { /usr/bin/w3m -no-cookie -o auto-image=TRUE $@ ; }
...the problem is that the command w3m exists: the shell
expands that thing and tries to run it -- the parentheses
then are a syntax error.
Thing is, the line as you wrote it is ambiguous whenever the shell
knows how to "run" w3m: shall it run it, or are you trying to define
a function?
The shell decides for the first.
Try prefixing the thing with the builtin `function':
function w3m() ...
Cheers
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