Re: Redirection between assignment statement and command name prevents alias substitution

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/25/21 2:00 AM, Oğuz wrote:

> > I'm not sure why you want or need that, aliases
> > are dumb (bizarre) and shoukd be deleted...
> >
> > I keep trying to get tge POSIX people to
> > remove them from the standard.  They keep ignoring me.  Shells won't drop
> > support, but at least
> > no-one woukd be able to rely on them working,
> > or working any particular way any more.
>
>
> They are fine as an interactive feature but definitely don't belong in
> shell scripts.

That's why you have to turn on `expand_aliases' in default mode.


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