Re: Issues when func name is the same with an alias

[Bernd Eggink]

Am 04.08.2010 12:39, schrieb Clark J. Wang:
> I was testing the precedence between functions and aliases so I tried like
> this (with bash 4.1.5):
>
> $ cat rc
> alias foo='echo this is the alias'
>
> foo()
> {
>      builtin echo 'this is the function'
> }
>
> foo
> $ source rc
> bash: confusing-aliases-2.sh: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> bash: confusing-aliases-2.sh: line 4: `foo()'
> $
>
> Seems like I must explicitly use the `function' keyword to define foo() for
> this scenario. Is that the correct behavior?

The man page says "The first word of a simple command, if unquoted, is 
checked to see if has an alias". Therefore 'foo' in your function 
declaration is replaced by 'echo this is the alias'. Unfortunately, you 
can't quote the function name in the declaration, so you have to either 
use 'function' or say "unalias foo" first.

Regards,
Bernd

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