On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 03:49:35PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: > I had an alias referring to printf that I wanted to replace > with a function. > > But then ran into problems with the alias taking precedence over the > function.
Yup. That's one of the many evils of aliases. They need to be removed (unalias) before you can redefine them as functions. That's why I use "exec bash" to reread .bashrc, not just "source .bashrc". The latter can be confused by previous settings. An "exec bash" always starts clean.
