On 02/03/2012 06:25, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> +++
> type make; which -a make
> make is aliased to `settitle Making $(basename $PWD) && make "$@"'
> /usr/bin/make
> /usr/bin/make
> +++
>
> I groaned when I saw this as it is obvious the $(PWD) is feeding
> basename and that's the "make" error. Thanks.
>
> However, I am still trying to understand why this potentially incorrect
> alias is creating text output to the screen which can't be redirected as
> it isn't stdout or stderr ... or "3/4/5" as someone suggested I test.
I think it's because aliases are just simple text substitutions. So if you
have 'make' being transformed to 'settitle Making $(basename $PWD) && make
"$@"' then you would get 'make >& make.out' becoming 'settitle Making
$(basename $PWD) && make "$@" >& make.out' and as you see the redirect only
gets applied to the command after the '&&'.
cheers,
DaveK
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