On Tue, Feb 1, 2022, 19:11 Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> On 2/1/22 10:23 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>
> > If you defer alias expansion until execution, you lose the (posix-
> > encouraged but officially unspecified according to the approved
> > interpretation of issue 1342) ability to have aliases affect command
> > parsing in the command substitution:
>
> Well, I went back and read the entire interpretation. The part that's not
> specified is whether an alias expansion provides the closing `)', but alias
> expansion has to be performed while parsing the contents of the command
> substitution:
>
> "existing aliases are required to be expanded when the shell parses the
> input that follows the "$(" in order to find the terminating ')'"
>
i see here only possible ) closing parsing, not doing so results in a mess
for me, aliases as im bash ive experienced as text inplace replacements,
flat text, then the cmdline parsing is done, so closing ) if easily
specified by user yes works, else broken incomplete ( wrong pathed ) aliases
>
> and (in the same interpretation):
>
> "Historically some shells used simple parenthesis counting to find the
> terminating ')' and therefore did not account for aliases. However, such
> shells never conformed to POSIX, which has always required recursive
> parsing (see XCU 2.3 item 5)."
>
> So this seems like behavior that should be conditional on posix mode to
> preserve backwards compatibility.
>
> --
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> ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
>
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