On 1/11/23 10:43 PM, anonymous4feedb...@outlook.com 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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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    c...@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/


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