On 2/7/23 12:33 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
ALIASES
Aliases allow a string to be substituted for a word when it is used as
the first word of a simple command.
That makes it clear why the second case behaves as it does. But my
reading of the definition of "simple commands" implies that function
defintions are not simple commands, and alias substitution should not be
done on them (that is, the initial part) in any case.
When you parse a command and perform alias expansion, you don't yet know if
you're reading a simple command or a function definition.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
