On 1/11/23 10:43 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Dear dir or madam,For the following script: alias a1='echo ' alias a2=a1 alias foo=bar a2 foo bash outputs ‘foo’, instead of ‘bar’.
Bash has never extended the `expand next word' semantics to multiple-level
alias expansion like this, and no one has missed it.
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