Package: pdksh Version: 5.2.14-23 Severity: normal Aliases are not expanded with the -c option, as shown below.
$ cmd=$(printf "alias a='echo OK >&2'\na") $ printf "%s\n" "$cmd" alias a='echo OK >&2' a $ printf "%s" "$cmd" | pdksh OK $ pdksh -c "$cmd" pdksh: a: not found $ There's no such problem with ksh93, bash in POSIX mode, and dash (zsh has the same bug). -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5-20080922 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages pdksh depends on: ii debianutils 2.31 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.9-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries pdksh recommends no packages. pdksh suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
