On 3/14/17 12:56 PM, Pedro Gimeno wrote: > When using the 'alias' command without parameters, or with the '-p' > parameter, a list of aliases is displayed. This list has the form: > > alias name='value' > > 'help alias' states that this form is 'reusable', thus implying, if I > understand it correctly, that it can be fed back to bash. > > But that's not always the case. I have an alias called '-' that resolves to > 'cd -'. This alias needs to be entered as follows: > > alias -- -='cd -' > > However, it is output by the 'alias' command as: > > alias -='cd -'
This was changed in bash-4.4. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/