Package: zsh Version: 4.3.9-1 Severity: normal Aliases are not expanded with the -c option, as shown below.
vin% cmd=$(printf "emulate sh\nalias a='echo OK >&2'\na") vin% printf "%s\n" "$cmd" emulate sh alias a='echo OK >&2' a vin% printf "%s" "$cmd" | zsh -f OK vin% zsh -fc "$cmd" zsh:3: command not found: a vin% There's no such problem with ksh93, bash in POSIX mode, and dash (pdksh 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 zsh depends on: ii libc6 2.9-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcap2 2.16-2 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090214-1 shared libraries for terminal hand Versions of packages zsh recommends: ii libpcre3 7.8-2 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi Versions of packages zsh suggests: ii zsh-doc 4.3.9-1 zsh documentation - info/HTML form -- 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
