On 22 August 2017 at 12:45, Eliot Moss <m...@cs.umass.edu> wrote:
> On 8/22/2017 11:18 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>
>> On 22 August 2017 at 10:47, Eliot Moss <m...@cs.umass.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 8/22/2017 10:31 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
>
>>> It's a *bash* default - it has nothing to do with Cygwin as distinct
>>> from other bash installations. If you had a different experience
>>> elsewhere, it could be that the default was overridden in some system
>>> wide bashrc file - but that strikes me as unlikely. I suspect that
>>> this is done as a security measure, to prevent an alias from introducing
>>> a surprise.
>>>
>>
>> I checked on CentOS and there is no shopt option set in any of the
>> /etc/ files. It must be a compiled in default of some sort as EL6 and
>> EL7 both work without an explicit `shopt -s expand_aliases`. I then
>> tried on an Ubuntu 16.04 system and it works without the `shopt -s
>> expand_aliases` also.
>>
>> I didn't have access to anything else at the moment so I can't say
>> which other systems might actually follow the default other than
>> Cygwin at the moment.
>
>
> Hmmm ... One of my servers runs EL7 and it works there exactly as under
> Cygwin on my laptop. I wonder: Is there an nawk installed somewhere
> on your path on these CentOS and EL* systems? Put another way, if you
> put 'type -a nawk' in your script *before* the alias lines, what output
> do you get? And what about shopt? I added these lines before the alias
> lines:
>
> shopt | grep expand_aliases
> type -a nawk
> type -t nawk
>
> Regards - Eliot
>
>
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OK I figured it out. I didn't copy the original script correctly.
[ssmoogen@el-7 ~]$ ./x.sh foobar
Before alias
expand_aliases on
./x.sh: line 4: type: nawk: not found
After alias
expand_aliases on
nawk is aliased to `/usr/bin/awk'
alias
Hello World!
[ssmoogen@el-7 ~]$ cat x.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo "Before alias"
shopt | grep expand_aliases
type -a nawk
type -t nawk
alias nawk='/usr/bin/awk'
echo "After alias"
shopt | grep expand_aliases
type -a nawk
type -t nawk
nawk '{print $0}' $*
Change that #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash
[ssmoogen@el-7 ~]$ ./x.sh foobar
Before alias
expand_aliases off
./x.sh: line 4: type: nawk: not found
After alias
expand_aliases off
./x.sh: line 9: type: nawk: not found
./x.sh: line 11: nawk: command not found
So when you use bourne sh compatibility aliases get expanded. When you
don't.. they do as the reporter says.
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