On 2011-01-17 19:54, Justin C. Walker wrote: > On Jan 17, 2011, at 08:52 , Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> Even if you would have such an alias, shell scripts normally don't use >> aliases. > > Can you clarify this? Normally, in a shell script, using 'ln' will invoke > whatever version of 'ln' is found first [following the evaluation rules for > the shell in charge]. An alias will be found before anything on the disk > (unless the shell is doing something strange).
>From the bash man page: Aliases are not expanded when the shell is not interactive, unless the expand_aliases shell option is set using shopt (see the description of shopt under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below). In other words: in shell scripts aliases are completely ignored. Jeroen. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
