Re: Incorrect alias expansion within command substitution

[Lawrence Velázquez]

> On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 9:46 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On 2/5/22 3:44 PM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
>> > maybe ask about an shopt feature to enable straight alias expansion
>> > when the aliases are following ..
>>
>> How would that, whatever it is, help you here?

I think he wants an option that allows expansion of arbitrarily
long sequences of aliases, regardless of lexical context.

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022, at 3:54 PM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
> it would make the whole work at alias level
> alias (symbolic) 1=$(( 2=1+2 3=+ 4=1+2 5=))
> 1 2 3 4 5
> works
> [i wish]

*screaming at the sky*

Have you considered not writing code like this?

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vq