"Gurjeet Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1$ cat setenv.sh > #!/bin/sh > > alias llrt='ls -lrt' ... > 5$ . ./setenv.sh && llrt && . ./unsetenv.sh > sh: llrt: command not found
Aliases are expanded when a command is read, not when it is executed. The entire && chain of commands forms a single compound command, which is completely read before any of it is executed, so the alias is not defined yet at the point when it would be expanded. paul _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
