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Re: BASH_ALIASES assignment allow special characters
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: BASH_ALIASES assignment allow special characters |
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Sun, 27 May 2018 13:05:59 -0400 |
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On 5/27/18 4:20 AM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 19
> Release Status: release
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> Description:
> The special array BASH_ALIAS allows assignment/creation of aliases with
> special characters in it.
> Though these characters would error when used in an alias statement.
Thanks for the report. I suppose it's better to report an error on
assignment instead of simply never allowing the alias `name' to be used.
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